| NOCIGAR | "Prize" for the close |
| EVEN | Old or poetic word for the close of the day that also means balanced, calm, equal, fair, flat or uniform (4) |
| IRIS | Murdoch who received the 1978 Booker Prize for "The Sea, the Sea" |
| POTHUNTER | Is he after the prize for the most successful member of the drug squad? (3-6) |
| AUDEN | W. H. ___, British- born US poet awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the 1947 poem The Age of Anxiety (5) |
| IRISMURDOCH | ____ won the 1978 Booker prize for The Sea, The Sea |
| WHAUDEN | British-born US poet awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the 1947 work The Age of Anxiety (1,1,5) |
| MARGARETATWOOD | Author who won the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin and the Testaments: 2 wds. |
| KAZUOISHIGURO | Author who won the Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day: 2 wds. |
| KERIHULME | First New Zealand writer to win the Booker Prize, for The Bone People (4,5) |
| ABELLFORADANO | John Hersey work that won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1,4,3,5) |
| ATWOOD | Margaret, co-winner of the 2019 Man Booker Prize for The Testaments (6) |
| BUTTERCUP | A prize for the most vicious goat in the meadow? (9) |
| ELEANORCATTON | New Zealand author ____ won the 2013 Man Booker prize for The Luminaries |
| FINKLERQUESTION | Howard Jacobson won the 2010 Man Booker Prize for The ____ |
| HEBBEL | German poet and dramatist who won the Schiller Prize for the 1862 trilogy Die Nibelungen (6) |
| DESAI | Kiran ____ won the 2006 Man Booker prize for The Inheritance of Loss |
| ONDAATJE | Michael _, Sri-lankan born novelist who won the Booker Prize for The English Patient (8) |
| PAUL | Irish author awarded the 2023 Booker Prize for the dystopian novel Prophet Song (4) |
| LYNCH | Irish author awarded the 2023 Booker Prize for the dystopian novel Prophet Song (5) |
