| RUDYARD | (and 18 down) English writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature (7) |
| GRAHAMSWIFT | English writer who won the 1996 Booker Prize with Last Orders |
| ANDRE | And 18 Down English actor who played O'brien in 1954 BBC TV drama Nineteen Eighty-four (5,6) |
| NAIPAUL | V. S. ___, Trinidadian-British writer who won the 1971 Booker Prize and the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature (7) |
| WILLIAM | British writer who won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature (7,7) |
| CANETTI | Bulgaria-born writer who won the 1981 Nobel prize for literature (7) |
| DELEDDA | Grazia ___, Italian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1926 |
| SOYINKA | Wole, Nigerian writer who won the 1986 Nobel prize for literature (7) |
| GOLDING | British writer who won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature (7) |
| BENOKRI | Nigerian writer who won the 1991 Booker Prize with The Famished Road (3,4) |
| ELEANOR | English author who wrote the words to the hymn Morning Has Broken, _ Farjeon (7) |
| DICKENS | English writer who married Catherine Thomson Hogarth in 1836 (7) |
| TRAVERS | P.L. ___ , Australian-English writer who created Mary Poppins (7) |
| PEACOCK | Thomas, English author who wrote the satirical novella Nightmare Abbey (7) |
| CLEEVES | Ann ___ , English author who wrote the Shetland crime novels featuring Detective Jimmy Perez (7) |
| SHELLEY | English writer who created Frankenstein (7) |
| RENDELL | English author who created Chief Inspector Wexford (7) |
| AAMILNE | English author who wrote a story about Canada's most famous bear, _._. ___ (b.1882 d.1956) |
| GEORGIA | And 9 Down English golfer who won the 2018 Women's British Open (7,4) |
| TAGORE | Bengali writer who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature (6) |
