| ALANSILLITOE | Author of novels A Man of His Time and Birthday |
| ALAN | Author of the novels A Man of His Time and Birthday (4,8) |
| SILLITOE | Author of the novels A Man of His Time and Birthday (4,8) |
| TEMPORIS | Vir sui ____: a man of his times |
| HETAKES | "___ his time and does everything right" (line from "Whatta Man") |
| NEWMAN | Andrea -, author of novels A Bouquet of Barbed Wire and A Sense of Guilt (6) |
| MUNNINGS | Pre-eminent equestrian artist of his time, who painted such masterpieces as My Wife, My Horse and Myself and Study of Trees and Sky, despite being blinded, at age 20, by a thorny bush that struck his |
| GREENAWAY | Author and illustrator of Under the Window and Birthday Book who also provided the pictures for an edition of Language Of Flowers (9) |
| BARSTOW | Stan ___, author of novels A Kind of Loving and The Watchers on the Shore (7) |
| GALE | Patrick ___, author of novels A Perfectly Good Man and Notes from an Exhibition (4) |
| DONLEAVY | J P ?, author of novels A Fairy Tale of New York and The Onion Eaters |
| ALECWAUGH | Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth |
| STAN | Author of novels A Kind of Loving and The Watchers on the Shore (4,7) |
| ALEC | Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth (4,5) |
| WAUGH | Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth (4,5) |
| SVEVO | Italo ?, author of novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience (5) |
| WHITE | Edmund ?, author of novels A Boy's Own Story and The Farewell Symphony (5) |
| HARDY | Thomas -, author of novels A Laodicean and Jude the Obscure (5) |
| KELMAN | James ?, author of novels A Disaffection and Kieron Smith, Boy |
| ITALOSVEVO | Author of novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
