| HARLANCOBEN | American thriller writer whose novels include Deal Breaker, Fade Away and Tell No One (6,5) |
| EDMONDS | DJ and TV presenter whose credits include Deal Or No Deal, Noel _ (7) |
| INATRANCE | Crooner's son leaves once love fades away, and is unresponsive |
| KEEPITDARK | "Tell no-one castle and boat will carry computer stuff" ___ Duke (4,2,4) |
| DOSH | Tell no-one after cheat gets money |
| JAMESELLROY | US crime writer whose novels include L. A. Confidential (5,6) |
| WILLIAMBOYD | Scottish writer whose novels include A Good Man In Africa (1981) |
| THOMASHARDY | English writer whose novels included Far From The Madding Crowd (1874) |
| DAMONGALGUT | South African writer whose novel 'The Promise' won the 2021 Booker Prize (5,6) |
| MCCARTHY | Cormac _, American writer whose novels include No Country For Old Men (8) |
| ELLROY | James ---, American crime writer whose novels include The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential (6) |
| HEARAPINDROP | Leader embracing endless looting gets endless hanging and you can tell no-one's making a row (4,1,3, |
| LAWRENCE | Son of a coalminer and a lace-maker, a prolific writer whose novels include The White Peacock, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover (8) |
| NORMANMAILER | American writer whose novels include The Naked and the Dead |
| VERNE | Writer whose novels include Journey To The Centre Of The Earth and Around The World In Eighty Days ( |
| JIM | Crime writer whose novels include The Grifters and After Dark, My Sweet (3,8) |
| IAN | Scottish crime writer whose novels include Dead Souls and Let It Bleed (3,6) |
| RANKIN | Ian ___, Scottish crime writer whose novels include Dead Souls and Let It Bleed (6) |
| ORWELL | George ___, English writer whose novels include 1984 and Animal Farm (6) |
| LINKLATER | Eric ___, British writer whose novels include Juan in America and The Wind on the Moon |
