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Puzzle from the latest Dementia together magazine

Anagramword: All about books

It’s National Storytelling Week from 2–8 February, and Pete Middleton’s latest puzzle takes books as its theme.

Each clue begins with words that are an anagram of the answer, along with a clue to its meaning. How many can you solve?

Across

5. A hard doll transforms into a children’s author (5,4)
7. This car oil provides a genre of novel (10)
8. Any fast may end up as a work of fiction (7)
9. A river ant provides a written account (9)
12. Reactive, but able to use one’s imagination (8)
14. Every tape I mix provides a gum-shoe (7,3)
15. Quasi creep in the style of Don Quixote? (10)
16. A sporty lie told through letters or diaries (10)

Down

1. Concise nice fit for stories that are out of this world (7,7)
2. Go itch to create this dark, mysterious type of story (6)
3. Trace crash to people who appear in stories (10)
4. Into aspirin when a great idea hits you? (11)
6. Sick end for a famous Victorian storyteller? (7)
10. No cream for this genre of bodice-ripper? (7)
11. Cosy drive leads to a voyage of… (9)
13. New rest becomes a cowboy story (7)