| ARUNDHATI | --- Roy, Booker-winning author of The God of Small Things |
| IANCROSS | New Zealand author of The God Boy (3,5) |
| ROY | Arundhati of The God of Small Things |
| ARUNDHATIROY | Author of the novel "The God of Small Things", winner of the Booker Prize in 1997 |
| HOWARDJACOBSON | Booker-winning author of The Finkler Question |
| BENOKRI | Booker-winning author of The Famished Road |
| ANNEENR | Booker-winning author of "The Gathering" |
| ADIGA | Aravind ---, Booker-winning author of The White Tiger |
| PLUTO | From the Roman name of the god of the underworld aka "the rich one", the largest of the dwarf planets (5) |
| YANNMARTEL | Booker-winning author of Life of Pi |
| RODDYDOYLE | Booker-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (5,5) |
| HADES | The ancient Greek underworld and the abode of the god of the same name |
| MITHRAS | Greek form of the name of the god of light identified with the sun in Persian mythology |
| EVARISTO | Bernardine ---, Booker-winning writer of Girl, Woman, Other |
| NIAMH | In Irish mythology, the daughter of the god of the sea, Manannan mac Lir |
| OKRI | Booker-winning author Ben of "The Famished Road" |
| THINGS | The God of Small ___, novel by Arundhati Roy (6) |
| SEKHMET | In Egyptian religion, she was a goddess of war and the destroyer of the enemies of the sun god Re. She was associated both with disease and with healing and medicine. She was the companion of the god |
| ISAIAH | Which major Hebrew prophet taught the supremacy of the God of Israel? (6) |
| DITHYRAMB | A hymn of ancient Greece sung in honour of the god of wine and fertility (9) |
