| NORAROBERTS | American romance novelist who has sold more than 280 million copies of her works since 1981 (4,7) |
| JEWEL | ___ Kilcher: American female singer who has sold more than 30 million albums since her 1995 debut (5) |
| DUMAURIER | Author who set many of her works in Cornwall |
| DANIELLE | American romance novelist whose works include 1992's Jewels, _ Steel (8) |
| YWCA | Natl. org. of good works since 1906 |
| BREL | Jacques ___, Belgian singer-songwriter who has sold over 25 million records worldwide |
| SAPPHO | Lesbian lyric poet from Ancient Greece. Most of her work is lost, yet her influence cannot be overstated. |
| TREE | One of many on Antarctica over 280 million years ago, scientists have discovered |
| INDONESIA | Country in south-east Asia and Oceania (pop about 280 million) (9) |
| STEEL | Danielle ___ American romance writer whose books have sold more than 650 million copies |
| ATLANTA | At the beginning of August, this leading novelist, who has a place on the outskirts of Lanivet, is relocating to a city in Georgia (7) |
| KEYES | Marian ___, Irish novelist who has written a series of best-selling stories about women (5) |
| CAREY | Australian novelist who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang (5,5) |
| PETER | Australian novelist who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang (5,5) |
| PETERCAREY | Australian novelist who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang (5,5) |
| DIMENOVEL | Madly loved me in American romance, say |
| OED | Ref. work since 1884 |
| BECAUSE | Excellent bishop that's retired put to work since (7) |
| ELOISAJAMES | Romance novelist who wrote the Desperate Duchesses series among many others 2 wds |
| SHAKESPEARE | William ___ English writer whose books have sold more than 2 billion copies |
