| EVARISTO | Bernardine ---, winner of the 2019 Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other (8) |
| MARGARET | And 32 Across Canadian author who was joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize for her novel The Testaments (8,6) |
| THETESTAMENTS | Joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (3,10) |
| ATWOOD | Margaret ---, Canadian author who was joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize for her novel The Testaments (6) |
| GIRLWOMANOTHER | Novel by Bernardine Evaristo and co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize (4,5,5) |
| MATIDIOP | Director of "Atlantics," winner of the 2019 Grand Prix at Cannes |
| PENELOPE | Winner of the Booker Prize for her 1987 novel Moon Tiger, _ Lively (8) |
| LOVERMAN | BBC series based on the novel by Bernardine Evaristo (2,8) |
| ONDAATJE | Michael _, Sri-lankan born novelist who won the Booker Prize for The English Patient (8) |
| SAMANTHA | English novelist who won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital (8,6) |
| BROOKNER | Anita -; novelist and art historian awarded a Booker Prize for her Hotel du Lac (8) |
| GIRL | "___, Woman, Other" (Booker Prize-winning novel by Bernardine Evaristo) |
| TRUMP | Winner of the 2019 World Snooker Championship and the 2019 Masters title (4,5) |
| HALEP | Surname of the winner of the 2019 ladies' Wimbledon championship (5) |
| OMANI | Like Jokha Alharthi, winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize |
| OTHER | "Girl, Woman, ___": Bernardine Evaristo novel |
| DUNCANLAURENCE | Singer of Arcade, winner of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest |
| MURDOCH | Anglo-Irish novelist who taught philosophy at Oxford for some 15 years, later winning the Booker Prize for her exploration of the human psyche in The Sea, The Sea (7) |
| NIEMANN | Chilean golfer; winner of the 2019 A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier and 2022 Genesis Invitational tournaments (7) |
| JOAQUIN | Chilean golfer; winner of the 2019 A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier and 2022 Genesis Invitational tournaments (7) |
