| Writer who wrote "A bear, however hard he tries, / Grows tubby without exercise" | 90 |
| Writer who wrote "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity" | 84 |
| Writer who's always seeing things? | 38 |
| Writer who's in the minority | 32 |
| Writer whose first book, 1846, sold only two copies | 51 |
| Writer whose novella "Carmen" is the basis of Bizet's opera | 73 |
| Writer whose pen name was Jeremy Lord | 37 |
| Writer whose Pulitzer for "A Death in the Family" was posthumous | 74 |
| Writer whose stories inspired "Guys and Dolls" | 56 |
| Writer whose words are twisted? | 31 |
| Writer whose work describes him to a T | 38 |
| Writer whose work was Shakespeare's primary source for "Julius Caesar" | 84 |
| Writer Wiesel | 13 |
| Writer Wilde | 12 |
| Writer Wilder | 13 |
| Writer Wilkinson of The New Yorker | 34 |
| Writer William | 14 |
| Writer William Carlos | 21 |
| Writer William Dean ___ | 23 |
| Writer William Gilmore ___: 1806–70 | 42 |
| Writer William, Stephen or Laura | 32 |
| Writer Williams | 15 |
| Writer Willy who popularized spaceflight | 40 |
| Writer Wister | 13 |
| Writer Wister or actor Wilson | 29 |
| Writer with a point? | 20 |
| Writer with a Pulitzer and an Oscar | 35 |
| Writer with a reservoir | 23 |
| Writer with a twist | 19 |
| Writer with a well | 18 |
| Writer with an award named after him | 36 |
| Writer with an award named for him | 34 |
| Writer with ink | 15 |
| Writer with morals | 18 |
| Writer with the most combined Tony and Oscar nominations | 56 |
| Writer with the most Oscar nominations | 38 |
| Writer with the pen name Saki | 29 |
| Writer Wolfe | 12 |
| Writer Wolfert | 14 |
| Writer Wolfert et al. | 21 |
| Writer Wolitzer | 15 |
| Writer Woolf, to friends | 24 |
| Writer Wylie | 12 |
| Writer Yutang | 13 |
| Writer Zane | 11 |
| Writer Zola | 11 |
| Writer Zola and others | 22 |
| Writer Zona | 11 |
| Writer Zona et al. | 18 |
| Writer Zora --- Hurston | 23 |
| Writer Zora Neale -- | 20 |
| Writer Zora __ Hurston | 22 |
| Writer Zora ___ Hurston | 23 |
| Writer Zweig or Heym | 20 |
| Writer __ Boothe Luce | 21 |
| Writer __ Neale Hurston | 23 |
| Writer __ Rogers St. Johns | 26 |
| Writer ___ Bashevis Singer | 26 |
| Writer ___ Blount Jr. | 21 |
| Writer ___ Boothe Luce | 22 |
| Writer ___ Ellis Easton | 23 |
| Writer ___ Hubbard | 18 |
| Writer ___ Ingalls Wilder | 25 |
| Writer ___ Kinnan Rawlings | 26 |
| Writer ___ Louise Huxtable | 26 |
| Writer ___ Maria Remarque | 25 |
| Writer ___ Neale Hurston | 24 |
| Writer ___ Pera | 15 |
| Writer ___ Rogers St. Johns | 27 |
| Writer ___ St. Johns | 20 |
| Writer ___ St. Vincent Millay | 29 |
| Writer ___ Stanley Gardner | 26 |
| Writer ___ Tan | 14 |
| Writer ___ Wheeler Wilcox | 25 |
| Writer ___ Wister | 17 |
| Writer ___ y Gasset | 19 |
| Writer ___ Yutang | 17 |
| Writer ___-Beuve | 16 |
| Writer _____ Louise Huxtable | 28 |
| Writer _____ Winslow | 20 |
| Writer's accessory of yore | 30 |
| Writer's aid | 16 |
| Writer's angle | 18 |
| Writer's best friend, one would think | 41 |
| Writer's best friend, you'd think | 41 |
| Writer's block à la Cole Porter? | 39 |
| Writer's block breakthrough | 31 |
| Writer's block buster | 25 |
| Writer's block? | 19 |
| Writer's boast? | 19 |
| Writer's body of work | 25 |
| Writer's bottom line? | 25 |
| Writer's coll. major, often | 31 |
| Writer's complaint | 22 |
| Writer's concern | 20 |
| Writer's cramp, e.g. | 24 |
| Writer's cramp, for example | 31 |
| Writer's deg. | 17 |
| Writer's development | 24 |
| Writer's device | 19 |