| DISGRACE | 1999 Booker Prize-winning novel by JM Coetzee |
| JOHN | The J in JM Coetzee (4) |
| PETERPAN | Children's play by JM Barrie (5,3) |
| ADMIRABLE | The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Crichton, comic play by JM Barrie (9) |
| STREET | Quality ___, four-act comedy by JM Barrie (6) |
| WENDY | Girl's name popularised by JM Barrie's Peter Pan (5) |
| PAN | Peter ___, story by JM Barrie (3) |
| IBSENSGHOST | Toole's Theatre was the venue in 1891 for this first successful play by JM Barrie (5'1,5) |
| INDULCIJUBILO | Traditional Christmas carol; its original setting is a macaronic text of German and Latin, now wellknown in an arrangement by JM Neale (2,5,6) |
| WAITING | __ for __, poem by C.P. Cavafy - and a novel by J.M. Coetzee (7,3,10) |
| THEBARBARIANS | __ for __, poem by C.P. Cavafy - and a novel by J.M. Coetzee (7,3,10) |
| SUMMERTIME | 2009 novel by J M Coetzee |
| NOBEL | Prize won by J.M. Coetzee in 2003 |
| AFRIKANER | Literature Nobelist J. M. Coetzee, by birth |
| FOE | J. M. Coetzee novel based on, and rhyming with, "Robinson Crusoe" |
| NAMIBIA | Rugby union nation coached by Allister Coetzee since 2021 (7) |
| THEBLIND | 2000 Booker Prize-winning novel by Margaret Atwood (3,5,8) |
| THESEATHESEA | 1978 Booker prize-winning novel by Iris Murdoch (3,3,3,3) |
| LAST | 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel by Graham Swift (4,6) |
| THEOLDDEVILS | 1986 Booker Prize winning novel by Kingsley Amis (3,3,6) |
