| THOMAS | Novelist and poet, - Hardy (6) |
| WALTER | Sir ------ Scott, novelist and poet (6) |
| HARDLY | Novelist and poet would drink litre only with great difficulty (6) |
| GEORGE | Novelist and poet famous for Rhoda Fleming, The Egoist, etc. (6,8) |
| UPDIKE | US novelist and poet (1932-2009) |
| THOMASHARDY | British novelist and poet whose works include Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure (6,5) |
| WALTERSCOTT | Scottish novelist and poet who wrote Ivanhoe and Rob Roy (6,5) |
| SIRWALTER | Sound of Caledonian novelist and poet (3,6) |
| GEORGEMEREDITH | Novelist and poet who wrote The Egoist (6,8) |
| SCOTT | Scottish novelist and poet who wrote Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Old Mortality, The Lady of the Lake and Waverley (5) |
| HARDY | British novelist and poet whose works include The Mayor of Casterbridge (6,5) |
| SETH | Indian novelist and poet who wrote The Golden Gate, A Suitable Boy and the fable collection Beastly Tales (4) |
| JACKKEROUAC | Novelist and poet whose books include On the Road, The Dharma Bums and Big Sur |
| KIPLING | Rudyard -; novelist and poet who wrote about characters including Kaa, Mowgli, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Shere Khan in The Jungle Book (7) |
| HUGO | French dramatist, novelist and poet who tells the tale of characters Esmeralda and Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (4) |
| MEREDITH | Novelist and poet famous for Rhoda Fleming, The Egoist, etc. (6,8) |
| TROLLOPE | Novelist and poet disturbed about revolutionary movement (8) |
| MANZONI | Alessandro, Italian novelist and poet (7) |
| SIA | Novelist and poet Figiel |
| JAMES | 20th-century Irish novelist and poet (5) |
