| EVARISTO | Bernardine ---, Booker-winning writer of Girl, Woman, Other |
| ARUNDHATI | --- Roy, Booker-winning author of The God of Small Things |
| YANNMARTEL | Booker-winning author of Life of Pi |
| HOWARDJACOBSON | Booker-winning author of The Finkler Question |
| BENOKRI | Booker-winning author of The Famished Road |
| ANNEENR | Booker-winning author of "The Gathering" |
| ADIGA | Aravind ---, Booker-winning author of The White Tiger |
| GIRL | "___, Woman, Other" (Booker Prize-winning novel by Bernardine Evaristo) |
| OKRI | Booker-winning author Ben of "The Famished Road" |
| SULLIVAN | Surname of award winning writer of the TV programme "Only Fools and Horses" (8) |
| TIMRICE | Tony-winning writer of "Evita" |
| CALLIE | Oscar-winning writer of 7 & 23 (6,6) |
| KHOURI | Oscar-winning writer of Thelma & Louise (6,6) |
| VIETTHANHNGUYEN | Pulitzer-winning writer of "The Sympathizer" |
| WELTY | Pulitzer-winning writer of "The Optimist's Daughter" |
| OTHER | "Girl, Woman, ___": Bernardine Evaristo novel |
| ARNDT | Oscar-winning writer of "Little Miss Sunshine" (2006) and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens": Michael ___ |
| DUCHESS | Title of a peeress used as an informal or affectionate form of address by a man to a girl/woman (7) |
| WOMAN | "Girl, ___, Other" (Bernardine Evaristo novel) |
| BEN | Nigerian author of the Booker-winning novel, The Famished Road; ... Okri |
