| NEVILSHUTE | (& 7-down) Only wives a hunter ordered for English-born Australian novelist (5,5,6) |
| COETZEE | J. M. ___, South African-born Australian novelist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003 (7) |
| LIONESS | One lesson ordered for English footballer (7) |
| UNEARTHS | Expels from burrow as hunter ordered |
| OLIVIANEWTONJOHN | English-born Australian singer and actress who co-starred with John Travolta in the film version of Grease |
| ETHELANDERSON | Which English-born Australian writer published her poetry in two volumes, Squatter's Luck (1942) and Sunday at Yarralumla (1947)? (5,8) |
| PETERANDRE | English-born Australian singer/songwriter formerly married to Katie Price (5,5) |
| NAOMI | English-born Australian actor who starred in Mulholland Drive, - Watts (5) |
| NOAH | - Taylor, versatile English-born Australian character actor (4) |
| WAGSTAFF | Which English-born Australian entertainer, who lent his suave style to advertising cigarettes, last toured as the narrator of The Rocky Horror Show in 1987? (8) |
| CAREY | Australian novelist who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang (5,5) |
| PETER | Australian novelist who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang (5,5) |
| PETERCAREY | Australian novelist who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang (5,5) |
| TIMWINTON | Australian novelist acclaimed for works such as Cloud Street and Breath (3,6) |
| RUSSELLBRADDON | Which Australian novelist was a Japanese prisoner of war who spent time on the Burma-Thailand railwa |
| HERBERT | Australian novelist best known for Poor Fellow My Country published in 1975, Xavier ... |
| WHITE | Patrick, Australian novelist who won the 1973 Nobel prize for literature (5) |
| NIGELKRAUTH | Which Australian novelist and academic wrote the political thriller Freedom Highway (1999) (5,6) |
| BRAE | Aviemore slope -- maybe slow down, only kilometre to go (4) |
| MARGARETFULTON | British-born Australian food and cooking guru, writer, journalist and author (8,6) |
