| Auteur's starting point | 27 |
| Auth. of many quotations | 24 |
| Auth. who died in Samoa | 23 |
| Auth.'s submissions | 23 |
| Authentic, in Thuringia | 23 |
| Authenticate officially | 23 |
| Authenticate, in a way | 22 |
| Authentication of a will | 24 |
| Authenticator of a sort | 23 |
| Authenticity, for short | 23 |
| Author -- Higgins Clark | 23 |
| Author -- Neale Hurston | 23 |
| Author -- Stanley Gardner | 25 |
| Author --- Neale Hurston | 24 |
| Author Ahmed and others | 23 |
| Author Alice ___ Miller | 23 |
| Author analyzed by Sartre | 25 |
| Author and atom enders | 22 |
| Author and film critic James | 28 |
| Author and screenwriter James | 29 |
| Author André and family | 26 |
| Author Anya and others | 22 |
| Author Arnold, for short | 24 |
| Author Augusto ___ Bastos | 25 |
| Author Bacon or Ephron | 22 |
| Author Bagnold and others | 25 |
| Author Bagnold or Blyton | 24 |
| Author Beattie or Radcliffe | 27 |
| Author Ben ___ Williams | 23 |
| Author better known as Saki | 27 |
| Author born 10/15/1920 | 22 |
| Author born 10/23/1942 | 22 |
| Author born August 27, 1871 | 27 |
| Author born Feb. 26, 1802 | 25 |
| Author born in Columbus, Ohio | 29 |
| Author born in Oak Park, Ill. | 29 |
| Author born June 17, 1914 | 25 |
| Author born June 25, 1903 | 25 |
| Author born on June 14, 1811 | 28 |
| Author Cather and namesakes | 27 |
| Author Clarissa Pinkola ___ | 27 |
| Author Clive . . . or Cujo | 26 |
| Author credited on many poems | 29 |
| Author Earl ___ Biggers | 23 |
| Author Ephron and others | 24 |
| Author Erich ___ Remarque | 25 |
| Author Ernest Thompson ___ | 26 |
| Author Ernie or Howard | 22 |
| Author Evelyn's brother | 27 |
| Author featured herein | 22 |
| Author Ferber and others | 24 |
| Author Fleming and others | 25 |
| Author Fleming or McEwan | 24 |
| Author Fleming, et al. | 22 |
| Author Follett or Kesey | 23 |
| Author Frances Parkinson | 24 |
| Author from Salem, Mass. | 24 |
| Author Gardner et al. | 22 |
| Author Gardner and namesakes | 28 |
| Author Gene ___ Porter | 22 |
| Author George who was a woman | 29 |
| Author goes to college | 22 |
| Author Graham's lament? | 27 |
| Author Hanff and others | 23 |
| Author Hector Hugh ___ | 22 |
| Author Hunter a k a Ed McBain | 29 |
| Author inspired by Twain | 24 |
| Author Ivo Andric, for one | 26 |
| Author James and others | 23 |
| Author James ___: 1909-55 | 25 |
| Author James: 1909–55 | 28 |
| Author John and family | 22 |
| Author John Dickson ___ | 23 |
| Author John ___ Passos | 22 |
| Author Jong and others | 22 |
| Author Jorge ___ Borges | 23 |
| Author Joyce Carol ___ | 22 |
| Author Joyce Carol ____ | 23 |
| Author Kingsley or Martin | 25 |
| Author Laurenceand family | 25 |
| Author LaVey or Chekhov | 23 |
| Author LeShan and others | 24 |
| Author Liz from Austin | 22 |
| Author Madeleine L'___ | 26 |
| Author Mario Vargas ___ | 23 |
| Author Martin or Kingsley | 25 |
| Author Michael and others | 25 |
| Author Milne's first name | 29 |
| Author Morrison and others | 26 |
| Author Morrison et al. | 22 |
| Author Munro's pen name | 27 |
| Author Murdoch or Rainer | 24 |
| Author named for Emerson | 24 |
| Author O'Flaherty et al. | 28 |
| Author Octavus Roy ___ | 22 |
| Author of A WomanSpeaks | 26 |
| Author of Animal Farm | 23 |
| Author of The Nazarene | 24 |
| Author of Annabel Lee | 24 |
| Author of Butterfield 8 | 26 |