| HOWARD | Author whose five-volume saga based on the fictional Cazalet family was adapted to screen (6) |
| THRONES | Epic saga based on the books of George R R Martin, Game Of _ (7) |
| UPSTAIRS | British period saga based on the class divide (-------- Downstairs) |
| CLARKE | Sir Arthur C. -; science-fiction author whose novel 2001: A Space Odyssey was adapted to screen by Stanley Kubrick (6) |
| WESLEY | Author from Devon whose novels including Jumping the Queue, The Camomile Lawn and Harnessing Peacocks were adapted to screen (6) |
| AUSTEN | Jane -; author whose novels including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma have been adapted to screen (6) |
| ATWOOD | Margaret -; novelist whose The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace have been adapted to screen (6) |
| CYGNUS | Large northern constellation whose five brightest stars make up the asterism the Northern Cross (6) |
| EMPIRE | - of the Sun; J. G. Ballard novel adapted to screen by Steven Spielberg (6) |
| PEYTON | Author of a number of books for children and young people, including Apple Won't Jump, Fly-by-Night, A Pattern of Roses, The Scruffy Pony as well as her classic Flambards novels that were adapted to s |
| JAMES | Henry -; author of The Wings of the Dove whose 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady was adapted to screen by Jane Campion (5) |
| AVATAR | 2009 film set on the fictional moon Pandora (6) |
| FATHER | Sitcom set on the fictional Craggy Island, - Ted (6) |
| BLOTT | - on the Landscape; Tom Sharpe's novel that was adapted to screen (5) |
| FRAME | Janet -; author whose autobiography An Angel at my Table was adapted to screen (5) |
| ALBEE | Dramatist whose play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was adapted to screen (5) |
| IRON | The - Man ; children's novel by former poet laureate Ted Hughes that was adapted to screen by Warner Bros (4) |
| FREESIA | This flower of the iris family was introduced to Mallorca from South Africa and soon adapted to soil and weather conditions on the island where it flowers in March/April (7) |
| PILCHER | Author of a Cornish saga based on an artist's daughter and her father's prized painting titled The Shell Seekers (7) |
| BREAD | Carla Lane sitcom based on the fictional Boswell family (5) |
