| PETERCAREY | Author of the Booker Prize winner, Oscar And Lucinda (5,5) |
| LUCINDA | Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winner, Oscar and - (7) |
| COSTARICA | Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias was President of this Central American republic (5,4) |
| RODDYDOYLE | Winner of the Booker Prize in 1993 for the novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (5,5) |
| 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) |
| ARUNDHATIROY | Author of the novel "The God of Small Things", winner of the Booker Prize in 1997 |
| 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) |
| HULME | Author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People (4.5) |
| MARGARETATWOOD | Author of the Booker Prize-winning novel, The Blind Assassin (8,6) |
| THEREMAINS | Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker prize-winner, ... Of The Day (3,7) |
| CATE | She played Lucinda in "Oscar and Lucinda" |
| YANNMARTEL | *Man Booker Prize winner for "Life of Pi" |
| MANTEL | Hilary -; two-time winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction for Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies (6) |
| BERNICERUBENS | Winner of the Booker Prize in 1970 for "The Elected Member" |
| SOMETHINGTOANSWERFOR | By PH Newby, the first winner of the Booker Prize |
| FLUIDOUNCE | Measure frill worn by Lucinda periodically |
| HOTELDULAC | Booker Prize winner in demand before university called foul |
