- AUTHOR
- One who works with a lot of characters
- Storyteller
- Curtain call cry
- Novel producer
- Tan or Brown
- Write
- J.K. Rowling, for one
- Novelist
- Lamb or Rice
- Name on a spine
- Manuscript producer
- Pope or King
- Mailer or Miller
- Writer
- Appreciative cry after a play
- Creator
- Name on the cover
- Character builder?
- Novelist, e.g.
- Card-catalogue datum
- Lamb or Bacon
- Audience cry
- Bacon or Lamb
- Playwright, e.g.
- One with a byline
- Spine line
- Touring pro, perhaps
- Name on a jacket
- Budd Schulberg, for instance.
- Curtain call on a first night.
- Curtain-call figure.
- First-nighter's cry.
- Opening-night call
- Harold Robbins or Robin Cook
- King or Sheldon
- Glasgow or London
- London or Manchester, e.g.
- Create
- Pen
- Stephen King or Ellery Queen
- With 24-Across, 1962 P. G. Wodehouse book
- With 26-Across, 1982 Al Pacino film
- Often-doubled cry at a play
- Orwell or Wells
- Wilde or Wilder
- Card catalog datum
- Anonymous one, sometimes
- Name on a book jacket
- Talk show guest, often
- Novel creator
- *People in power
- Sarah Waters or Patricia Highsmith
- Hanya Yanagihara, for the novel "A Little Life"
- Wolfe or Woolf
- Twain for one
- Creative type
- Name included with any 43-Down
- Mailer, for one
- Bookmaker?
- Austen, Alcott or Angelou
- One who decides on sentences?
- Spine handle
- Swift or Crane
