| PETERCAREY | Australian author of The Tax Inspector and Jack Maggs (5,5) |
| CAREY | Peter, author of The Tax Inspector (5) |
| COURTENAY | South African-born Australian author of The Power Of One, Bryce ... |
| GREER | Germaine, Australian author of The Female Eunuch (5) |
| MCCULLOUGH | Colleen ___, Australian author of novels including The Thorn Birds (1977) |
| CLIVEJAMES | Australian author, broadcaster and chat show host, 1939-2019, who spent most of his life in Britain (5,5) |
| ROACH | Aboriginal Australian writer of Took The Children Away, the song which gave voice to the sorrow of the stolen generation; Archie ... |
| WINNIEDUNN | A Tongan-Australian writer, whose debut novel, Dirt Poor Islanders (2024) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award? (6,4) |
| RETORT | The answer you gave the tax inspector (6) |
| RETURN | The answer you gave the tax inspector |
| FURPHY | Joseph ?, Australian author of novel Such is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins, published in 1903 |
| KATEMORTON | Australian author of 17- and 26-Across: 2 wds. |
| HENRY | Australian author of 1896 collection While the Billy Boils (5,6) |
| HENRYLAWSON | Australian author of poems and short stories,1867-1922; park in Drummoyne (5,6) |
| NINETTEDUTTON | Which Australian writer of books on enamel art, cookery, gardening and fiction wrote the 2000 Home: |
| PAULJENNINGS | UK-born Australian author of children's books (4,8) |
| MILESFRANKLIN | Australian author of My Brilliant Career (Picture C) (5,8) |
| LAWSON | Name a renowned Australian writer of verse and prose, Henry ... (6) |
| ASSESSOR | Jenny Gold, the tax inspector |
| CHARLTON | Surname of the fictional tax inspector, Cedric, in H E Bates's novella The Darling Buds of May (8) |
