| PAIGE | Apt name for a novelist |
| WRITER | The fountain pen perhaps, for a novelist |
| ORATOR | Word for a person who paints lettering for signs; a novelist or journalist; a professional clerk or scribe; or, a composer of music (6) |
| IAN | Forename of a novelist whose subjects include a bridge cheat, a diamond smuggler, a secret agent, a trapeze artist-turned-aviatrix and an eccentric inventor of a magical flying car called Chitty-Chitt |
| DISRAELI | Statesman who abandoned being a solicitor to become a novelist before serving twice as a UK prime minister (8) |
| JAMES | Depicted in a portrait by John Singer Sargent, a novelist awarded the Order of Merit in 1916 who wrote The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove (5) |
| PAPERBACKWRITER | In his just published book, "The Lyrics," Paul McCartney offers details about 154 of his songs; early on he wanted to be a novelist, and for this hit imagined penning "a letter to the publishing compa |
| TRAVERSAL | Crossing a line, a novelist left (9) |
| SEVENKEYSTOBALDPATE | Oft-filmed play about a novelist at a lonely |
| READE | Peruse a letter from a novelist (5) |
| AUTHORIAL | A harlot, I suspect, stealing Waugh's heart as a novelist? (9) |
| CONVERSATIONAL | A novelist can or might produce another word for 'relaxed' (14) |
| JAMESIAN | Judge with loss of memory dropping name of a novelist |
| EASTERNER | For example, Georgian monarch welcoming a novelist from Ireland (9) |
| CYRANO | - de Bergerac ; play by Edmond Rostand inspired by a novelist and duellist of the same name (6) |
| CARTER | Pen name of a novelist and short story writer whose works include The Magic Toyshop, Nights at the Circus and Shadow Dance (6) |
| CHILD | Pen name of a novelist whose character Jack Reacher is portrayed by Tom Cruise in two movies (5) |
| CITYLIGHTS | BBC Scotland sitcom about a bank-teller with dreams of becoming a novelist (1984-91) (4,6) |
| ARTHUR | Forename of a novelist who, in his 1887 work of fiction A Study in Scarlet, created the crime-solving duo Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson (6) |
| ZELDA | First name of the wife of F Scott Fitzgerald, a novelist in her own right (5) |
