| BYATT | A(ntonia) S(usan) ___, English author awarded the Booker Prize for 1990's Possession: A Romance (5) |
| ATWOOD | Margaret ___, Canadian author awarded the Booker Prize for 2000's The Blind Assassin and 2019's The Testaments (6) |
| LESSING | Doris ___, English author awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature (7) |
| GOLD | First prize for 1990s TV series Band of .... (4) |
| WILLACATHER | She set her novels "O Pioneers!" and "My AÂntonia" in settler-era Nebraska (2 wds.) |
| SABOT | Included among possessions - a bottle-opener, a wooden shoe |
| GOODSAMARITAN | Charitable helper offers possessions - a ton carried by Robin's girl |
| WILLA | --- Cather, US author of O Pioneers! and My Ántonia |
| CATHER | Willa who wrote "My AAÂntonia" |
| LYNCH | Irish author awarded the 2023 Booker Prize for the dystopian novel Prophet Song (5) |
| LUIGI | Italian author awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1934 (5,10) |
| KAZUO | Japanese-born British author awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 (5,8) |
| ALICE | Canadian short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 (5,5) |
| MUNRO | Canadian short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 (5,5) |
| READE | Charles ___, English author best known for the historical romance The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) (5) |
| AGNON | Shmuel Yosef ___, Israeli author awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1966 (5) |
| SWIFT | Graham ___, English author of novels including the Booker Prize-winning Last Orders (1996) (5) |
| BLAKE | William ___, English author of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and The Book of Los (5) |
| OASIS | Nothing unchanged for Nineties band (5) |
| LYALL | Gavin ___, English author of espionage thrillers whose first novel, The Wrong Side of the Sky, was published in 1961 |
