| MARGARET | & 18D Which Canadian author wrote The Handmaid's Tale and its followup The Testaments, a Booker Prize winner? (8,6) |
| ATWOOD | Which Canadian author wrote The Handmaid's Tale and its followup The Testaments, a Booker Prize winner? (8,6) |
| MARGARETATWOOD | Author of the dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale and its sequel The Testaments: 2 wds. |
| ANNCLEEVES | Which crime writer wrote the Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn series, all of which have been adapted to TV programs as Vera (from 2011), Shetland (from 2013) and The Long Call (2021)? (3,7) |
| ANDERSEN | Which Danish author wrote "The Ugly Duckling", etc (8) |
| TWAIN | Which author wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ? (5) |
| RUHEN | Which journalist and author wrote about his travels in Papua New Guinea in Mountains in the Clouds ( |
| HULU | TV streaming service behind The Handmaid's Tale and The Kardashians. (4) |
| ELISABETH | _ Moss, star of TV series The Handmaid's Tale and film Us (9) |
| CRONIN | Scottish author wrote The Citadel (1937) |
| EDWARDS | Which children's author wrote There's a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake (2005) |
| RUTHPRAWERJHABVALA | The only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar (4,6,8) |
| SHUGGIEBAIN | He is a big gun for a change - a Booker Prize winner! (7,4) |
| STORY | Holding a gold pen, what the author wrote (5) |
| KEROUAC | Which US Beat Generation author wrote On the Road? (7) |
| OKRI | Nigerian author awarded a Booker Prize for The Famished Road (4) |
| BROOKNER | Anita -; novelist and art historian awarded a Booker Prize for her Hotel du Lac (8) |
| AMSTERDAM | Capital of the Netherlands; or, a Booker Prize-winning novel by Ian McEwan (9) |
| BERGER | John ____’s G has the shortest title for a Booker Prize winner |
| BRIDGES | Awarded an Order of Merit for The Testament of Beauty and services to literature, a doctor who held the position of poet laureate from 1913 until his death in 1930 (7) |
