| Author of the #1 best seller "Couples" | 48 |
| Author of the "Annus Mirabilis" papers | 48 |
| Author of the "Asian Saga" series | 43 |
| Author of the "Elements," ca. 300 B.C. | 48 |
| Author of the "Goosebumps" book series | 48 |
| Author of the "Goosebumps" series | 43 |
| Author of the "Minimax Cookbook" | 42 |
| Author of the 1959 novel "Doctor Sax" | 47 |
| Author of the 1965 biography "Kennedy" | 48 |
| Author of the 2010 book "Talk Show" | 45 |
| Author of the 87th Precinct series | 34 |
| Author of the autobiography "Open" | 44 |
| Author of the Barsetshire novels | 32 |
| Author of the best-selling book series in history | 49 |
| Author of the Books of Chronicles, by tradition | 47 |
| Author of the Dave Robicheaux mysteries | 39 |
| Author of the European Recovery Plan | 36 |
| Author of The Handmaid's Tale | 33 |
| Author of the horror novel "Red Rain" | 47 |
| Author of the Leatherstocking Tales | 35 |
| Author of the memoir "Promises to Keep" | 49 |
| Author of the novel "Doctor Faustus" | 46 |
| Author of the poem "Teddy Bear" | 41 |
| Author of the Three Laws of Robotics | 36 |
| Author of the travelogue "In Sweden" | 46 |
| Author of the withholding-tax plan | 34 |
| Author of this puzzle's quote | 33 |
| Author Pierre ___: 1850–1923 | 35 |
| Author profiled in "Shadowlands" | 42 |
| Author Raphael Gibbs, to his friends | 36 |
| Author read by Bando and Stevens | 32 |
| Author referenced in "The Following" | 46 |
| Author Rostov: "Eroica" | 33 |
| Author Rostov: "Eroica," 1977 | 39 |
| Author said to have influenced Hitchcock | 40 |
| Author Shaw of The Young Lions | 34 |
| Author Shute of "On the Beach" | 40 |
| Author Sinclair or baseball's B.J. | 38 |
| Author Smith of "Topper" fame | 39 |
| Author Stoker ("Dracula") | 35 |
| Author who appeared in "Jaws" | 39 |
| Author who coined "nerd" | 34 |
| Author who coined the term "robotics" | 47 |
| Author who created Emma Woodhouse | 33 |
| Author who declined the Nobel Prize | 35 |
| Author who gave us "Goosebumps" | 41 |
| Author who gave us "sour grapes" | 42 |
| Author who has used the pseudonym Newt Scamander | 48 |
| Author who influenced Conan Doyle | 33 |
| Author who produces mediocre material | 37 |
| Author who received an O.B.E. in 2001 | 37 |
| Author who served as U.S. minister to Spain | 43 |
| Author who was a professor of Anglo-Saxon | 41 |
| Author who was also an entomologist | 35 |
| Author who was Cézanne's close friend | 44 |
| Author who went by the pseudonym George Orwell | 46 |
| Author who won a posthumous Pulitzer | 36 |
| Author who won a posthumous Pulitzer in 1958 | 44 |
| Author who won the 1986 Peace Prize | 35 |
| Author who wore "a warm knit"? | 40 |
| Author who wrote about frontier life | 36 |
| Author who'll never make a name for himself | 47 |
| Author who's rarin' to write? | 37 |
| Author whose main character is Jack Reacher | 43 |
| Author whose novels span 6,000 years | 36 |
| Author whose only published novel won a Pulitzer | 48 |
| Author Wister of "The Virginian" | 42 |
| Author with a Moscow park named after him | 41 |
| Author with a museum in Richmond, Virginia | 42 |
| Author Zora Neale ___ of the Harlem Renaissance | 47 |
| Author ___ de Cervantes Saavedra | 32 |
| Author's "jackpot" | 32 |
| Author's letter to an editor | 32 |
| Author's secret collaborator | 32 |
| Author-film critic: 1909–55 | 34 |
| Author-turned-radio personality? | 32 |
| Author/illustrator Richard of the Busytown books | 48 |
| Authoritative expression of permission | 38 |
| Authority giving specific orders | 32 |
| Authority on Mayan culture: 1849–1922 | 44 |
| Authority on sayings of Mohammed | 32 |
| Authority whose fame was in the cards | 37 |
| Authorize two bros' get-together? | 37 |
| Authors of "Middletown . . . " | 40 |
| Authors' submissions (abbr.) | 32 |
| Auto accessory for wintry weather | 33 |
| Auto accessory on a welcome sign? | 33 |
| Auto additive with a red oval logo | 34 |
| Auto body company with old "uh-oh" ads | 48 |
| Auto company headquartered in Munich | 36 |
| Auto company partnering with Fiat | 33 |
| Auto dealer's agreement, at times | 37 |
| Auto denter in a supermarket parking lot | 40 |
| Auto design now, vis-Ã -vis the 1950s? | 40 |
| Auto designed by Ferdinand Porsche | 34 |
| Auto discontinued in 1974 and relaunched in 2004 | 48 |
| Auto engine nickname based on its shape, briefly | 48 |
| Auto financing factor, initially | 32 |
| Auto founded by an aircraft company | 35 |
| Auto gizmo that talks, for short | 32 |