| Writer of hard-boiled fiction | 29 |
| Writer of gold-rush stories | 27 |
| Writer of gold rush stories | 27 |
| Writer of creamy messages | 25 |
| Writer of boys' tales | 25 |
| Writer of boys' books | 25 |
| Writer of animal stories | 24 |
| Writer of almost 2,000 poems | 28 |
| Writer of a 1939 Lincoln bio | 28 |
| Writer of 40-plus novels | 24 |
| Writer of Metamorphoses | 26 |
| Writer O'Flaherty et al. | 28 |
| Writer O'Faolain et al. | 27 |
| Writer Nevil and family | 23 |
| Writer named for a singer? | 26 |
| Writer Morrison and others | 26 |
| Writer Moore or Moorehead | 25 |
| Writer Medeleine L'___ | 26 |
| Writer Marilyn ___ Savant | 25 |
| Writer Marilyn __ Savant | 24 |
| Writer Madeleine L'___ | 26 |
| Writer like Agnes Repplier | 26 |
| Writer LeShan and others | 24 |
| Writer Leon and family | 22 |
| Writer known for Wimsey | 23 |
| Writer known for twists | 23 |
| Writer known for moralizing | 27 |
| Writer known for irony | 22 |
| Writer known as Artemus Ward | 28 |
| Writer Kingsley or Martin | 25 |
| Writer Kesey or Follett | 23 |
| Writer Katherine ___ Porter | 27 |
| Writer Joyce Carol ___ | 22 |
| Writer Jong and others | 22 |
| Writer John Dickson ___ | 23 |
| Writer John Dickson -- | 22 |
| Writer James: 1909–55 | 28 |
| Writer James from Tennessee | 27 |
| Writer James and others | 23 |
| Writer James and family | 23 |
| Writer Isak Dinesen, e.g. | 25 |
| Writer in cipher, maybe | 23 |
| Writer Hentoff and others | 25 |
| Writer Hecht and others | 23 |
| Writer gets a connection | 24 |
| Writer Germaine de ___ | 22 |
| Writer George or T. S. | 22 |
| Writer Gardner and namesakes | 28 |
| Writer from Zanesville | 22 |
| Writer from Terre Haute | 23 |
| Writer from Hannibal, Mo. | 25 |
| Writer friend of Chopin | 23 |
| Writer Francis or Roger | 23 |
| Writer Frances Parkinson | 24 |
| Writer Foote detects an owl? | 28 |
| Writer Fleming, for one | 23 |
| Writer Ferber and others | 24 |
| Writer exiled by Claudius | 25 |
| Writer Earl ___ Biggers | 23 |
| Writer Earl __ Biggers | 22 |
| Writer Diamond or actor Leto | 28 |
| Writer de Beauvoir et al. | 25 |
| Writer Currer Bell, really | 26 |
| Writer Calderon or Bombeck | 26 |
| Writer Buruma and others | 24 |
| Writer buried in Elmira | 23 |
| Writer Buchanan and others | 26 |
| Writer Brecht and namesakes | 27 |
| Writer born May 28, 1908 | 24 |
| Writer born March 2, 1904 | 25 |
| Writer born June 26, 1892 | 25 |
| Writer born in Paris: 1840 | 26 |
| Writer born in Algeria | 22 |
| Writer born Eric Blair | 22 |
| Writer Bombeck and namesakes | 28 |
| Writer Blyton or Bagnold | 24 |
| Writer Benchley, to friends | 27 |
| Writer Ben ___ Williams | 23 |
| Writer Bellow and others | 24 |
| Writer Beattie and others | 25 |
| Writer at the chess match? | 26 |
| Writer at Orchard House | 23 |
| Writer André et al. | 22 |
| Writer and film critic | 22 |
| Writer and diplomat Clare | 25 |
| Writer Aleichem and others | 26 |
| Writer Alan and family | 22 |
| Writer Alain and family | 23 |
| Writer Akins and others | 23 |
| Writer Aiken and actor Bain | 27 |
| Writer aboard the Beagle | 24 |
| Writer / director Ephron | 24 |
| Writer / artist Silverstein | 27 |
| Writer -- Stanley Gardner | 25 |
| Writer -- St. Vincent Millay | 28 |
| Writer -- Rogers St. Johns | 26 |
| Writer -- Jackson Braun | 23 |
| Writeable discs (abbr.) | 23 |
| Write-___ (some votes) | 22 |
| Write-___ (some vote-getters) | 29 |