| TERRY | Author who created Discworld, the setting for 41 of his novels (5,9) |
| PRATCHETT | Author who created Discworld, the setting for 41 of his novels (5,9) |
| DISCWORLD | Setting for 41 of Terry Pratchett's fantasy novels |
| SYMS | Mozart wrote at least 41 of them: Abbr. |
| HARDY | Dorset's celebrated literary figure who used the names Shaston or Palladour to describe the Saxon hilltop town Shaftesbury in the fictional Wessex of his novels Jude the Obscure and Tess of the D'Urbe |
| TERRYPRATCHETT | Author of the Discworld novels |
| MELVILLE | Author whose first-hand experiences on a whaling ship formed the basis of his novels including Moby-Dick and Omoo (8) |
| JOHNIRVING | He has set many of his novels in New Hampshire, including "A Prayer for Owen Meany" and "The Hotel New Hampshire" (2 wds.) |
| WOUK | Two of his novels were called "the war itself" by Kissinger |
| ISHIGURO | Nobel Prize-winning author knighted in February this year, his novels include An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go (8) |
| WILBUR | ____ Smith, Zambian-born author noted for his novels chronicling the lives of the Courtney family (6) |
| MAINE | Stephen King has set many of his novels here |
| NOTREDAME | Gothic cathedral in Paris, where Victor Hugo set one of his novels (5-4) |
| SPARKS | Many of his novels were made into romantic drama movies |
| BRIGHTON | Resort town in which Graham Greene set one of his novels (8) |
| WESSEX | Area in which Thomas Hardy set many of his novels |
| DRYASDUST | Dr Jonas, fictitious character to whom Sir Walter Scott dedicated some of his novels (9) |
| IAINBANKS | Scottish author noted for his novels The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road (4,5) |
| STEP | What Hesse called one of his novels |
| JAMESBALDWIN | Expat Afro-American poet who spent much of his life in Paris. His novels, essays, and activism solidify him as a crucial figure in the Harlem Renaissance movement. |
