| PETERCAREY | Australian author of novels including the Booker Prize-winning Oscar and Lucinda (1988) (5,5) |
| MCCULLOUGH | Colleen ___, Australian author of novels including The Thorn Birds (1977) |
| FURPHY | Joseph ?, Australian author of novel Such is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins, published in 1903 |
| IRISMURDOCH | English author of novels including the Booker Prize-winning The Sea, the Sea (1978) |
| MANTEL | British author of novels including the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the |
| SWIFT | Graham ___, English author of novels including the Booker Prize-winning Last Orders (1996) (5) |
| 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) |
| BIODEGRADE | Abridged English novel winning Oscar is rot |
| CLIVEJAMES | Australian author, broadcaster and chat show host, 1939-2019, who spent most of his life in Britain (5,5) |
| WINNIEDUNN | A Tongan-Australian writer, whose debut novel, Dirt Poor Islanders (2024) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award? (6,4) |
| KAZUOISHIGURO | Japanese-born British novelist whose novels include the Booker-prize-winning The Remains of the Day |
| MURDOCH | Iris ---, author and philosopher who wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, The Sea (7) |
| ROACH | Aboriginal Australian writer of Took The Children Away, the song which gave voice to the sorrow of the stolen generation; Archie ... |
| FLUIDOUNCE | Measure frill worn by Lucinda periodically |
| CATE | Blanchette of "Oscar and Lucinda" |
| HILARY | And 25 Down British author of novels including the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the |
| BYATT | Author of the Booker Prize-winning romance Possession and novel set in Edwardian England The Children's Book (5) |
| KERIHULME | Author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People (4,5) |
| KERI | Author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People (4.5) |
