There is a total of 136549 clues beginning with a
- Author Waugh brother of 54 Across
- Author Waugh
- Author Wayne
- Author Weldon
- Author Welty
- Author Werfel
- Author West
- Author West et al
- Author Wharton
- Author Whitely
- Author Whitten
- Author who acts in his own movies
- Author who appeared in "Jaws"
- Author who assisted Queen Victoria in her writings
- Author who became a Japanese citizen
- Author who began a dental practice in New York City in 1898
- Author who co-wrote the screenplay for the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine"
- Author who coined "nerd"
- Author who coined "quarks," whose six flavors appear in this puzzle's six groups of circled squares
- Author who coined the term "Lost Generation"
- Author who coined the term "robotics"
- Author who coined the words "multicolor" and "normality"
- Author who comes from a New Jersey city
- Author who covered the Spanish-American War for New York newspapers
- Author who created Emma Woodhouse
- Author who created John Galt
- Author who created Oz
- Author who created Poker Flat
- Author who created Sam Spade
- Author who created the characters named by the starts of 17-, 24-, 49- and 61-Across
- Author who created the fatalistic optometrist Billy Pilgrim
- Author who created Zuckerman
- Author who declined the Nobel Prize
- Author who did part of his work on Friday
- Author who died on the same day as John F Kennedy
- Author who famously ended a short story with the line "Romance at short notice was her specialty"
- Author who felt tulips growing up his legs upon drinking his first glass of 51-Across
- Author who gave us "Goosebumps"
- Author who gave us "sour grapes"
- Author who gets no credit
- Author who has used the pseudonym Newt Scamander
- Author who influenced Conan Doyle
- Author who influenced Verne
- Author who inspired "Cats"
- Author who inspired a Baltimore team's nickname
- Author who inspired the musical "Wicked"
- Author who inspired Verne
- Author who is on the money?
- Author who penned the line “Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart”
- Author who popularized the demon Mephistopheles
- Author who produces mediocre material
- Author who published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell
- Author who received an OBE in 2001
- Author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature on the basis of her first six novels, all featured in this puzzle
- Author who said "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us"
- Author who said "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve"
- Author who said "My job is to give kids the creeps"
- Author who said "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die"
- Author who served as US minister to Spain
- Author who shares his name with a German state
- Author who should have written "How Green Was My Valley"?
- Author who should have written "On the Beach"?
- Author who should have written "Pale Horse, Pale Rider"?
- Author who should have written "The Mouse That Roared"?
- Author who should have written "The Pathfinder"?
- Author who used the pseudonym "Alcofribas Nasier," an anagram of his full name
- Author who was a childhood friend of Harper Lee
- Author who was a professor of Anglo-Saxon
- Author who was a US Consul
- Author who was also an entomologist
- Author who was expelled from West Point
- Author who was once Claudia Johnson's press secretary
- Author who was the title subject of the Best Picture of 1937
- Author who went by his first two initials
- Author who went through Hell
- Author who went west?
- Author who won a posthumous Pulitzer
- Author who won a posthumous Pulitzer in 1958
- Author who won the 1986 Peace Prize
- Author who wore "a warm knit"?
- Author who worked on Friday?
- Author who wouldn't let bygones be bygones?
- Author who wrote "Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today"
- Author who wrote "Demian" under the pen name Emil Sinclair
- Author who wrote "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"
- Author who wrote "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards"
- Author who wrote "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity"
- Author who wrote "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life"
- Author who wrote "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other"
- Author who wrote "Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man"
- Author who wrote a 142-volume history of Rome
- Author who wrote about frontier life
- Author who wrote an acclaimed profile of Frank Sinatra for Esquire
- Author who wrote on Friday
- Author who wrote on Friday?
- Author who wrote that "hell is other people"
- Author who wrote “Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance”
- Author who'll never make a name for himself
- Author who's probably legendary
- Author who's rarin' to write?