| BERYL | - - - Bainbridge, British novelist (5) |
| FERRY | Transport from Seattle to Bainbridge Island |
| TASTE | Merril Bainbridge "When I kiss your mouth, I want to ___ it" |
| JAMES | Henry -----, US-born British novelist (1843-1916) (5) |
| SHUTE | British novelist coming from the US (5) |
| NORAH | ___ Lofts, 20th century British novelist (5) |
| CHILD | Two-part play co-authored by British novelist JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed ___ (5) |
| HARDY | British novelist and poet whose works include The Mayor of Casterbridge (6,5) |
| BYATT | A.S. ---, British novelist who won the Booker Prize in 1990 for Possession (5) |
| WHITE | TH ---, 20th-Century British novelist who wrote The Sword In The Stone (5) |
| LEWIS | Which British novelist had the first names Clive Staples? (5) |
| DORIS | Iranian-born British novelist awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature (5,7) |
| ACCRA | Ghanaian city where British novelist William Boyd was born (5) |
| READE | Aptly named 19th-century British novelist |
| ENIDS | British novelist Ms. Bagnold's |
| WAUGH | British novelist brothers' surname |
| ANITA | British novelist Brookner |
| INNES | Hammond ___, British novelist |
| SWEETWILLIAM | 1975 Beryl Bainbridge novel (5,7) |
| OUIDA | Pseudonym of British novelist Marie Louise de la Ramee (1839- 1908) |
