| BYATT | Author of the Booker Prize-winning romance Possession and novel set in Edwardian England The Children's Book (5) |
| AROOMWITHAVIEW | E. M. Forster novel about Lucy Honeychurch, a young woman in Edwardian England (1,4,4,1,4) |
| ZHIVAGO | Title character of an epic historical film (and novel) set in Russia |
| THEWHITEGUARD | Mikhail Bulgakov's play and novel set in post-revolutionary Kyiv (3,5,5) |
| AVIEW | EM Forster's novel of Edwardian England, A Room With ... (1,4) |
| SWEETPEA | Fragrant pastel-coloured flower native to Italy that became the floral emblem of Edwardian England (5,3) |
| KERIHULME | Author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People (4,5) |
| KERI | Author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People (4.5) |
| HULME | Author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People (4.5) |
| MARGARETATWOOD | Author of the Booker Prize-winning novel, The Blind Assassin (8,6) |
| ARUNDHATIROY | Author of the novel "The God of Small Things", winner of the Booker Prize in 1997 |
| PROLOCUTOR | In the Church of England, the chairperson of the lower house of the Convocations of Canterbury and York (10) |
| MURDOCH | Iris ---, author and philosopher who wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, The Sea (7) |
| YORKMINSTER | Cathedral in Northern England, the seat of the cleric holding the secondhighest office of the Church of England (4,7) |
| RODDYDOYLE | Winner of the Booker Prize in 1993 for the novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (5,5) |
| PETERCAREY | Author of the Booker Prize winner, Oscar And Lucinda (5,5) |
| IRISMURDOCH | English author of novels including the Booker Prize-winning The Sea, the Sea (1978) |
| MANTEL | British author of novels including the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the |
| BEN | Nigerian author of the Booker-winning novel, The Famished Road; ... Okri |
| SALMANRUSHDIE | Author, winner of the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children, who survived a stabbing in 2022 (6,7) |
