| FOWLES | Author whose novel The French Lieutenant's Woman was adapted into a film by Harold Pinter in 1981 (6) |
| THEGOBETWEEN | LP Hartley novel adapted for film by Harold Pinter |
| REPRINTED | Is in a new edition of Pinter, in red (9) |
| INTREPID | Daring to break Pinter in the papers (8) |
| WHARTON | Edith a"; author whose novel The Age of Innocence was adapted into a film with Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis 7:A::The Phantom of the -; Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on a novel by Gaston |
| ISHIGURO | Author whose novel The Remains of the Day was adapted into a film by James Ivory and Ismail Merchant (8) |
| BOWEN | Author whose novel The Heat of the Day was adapted by Harold Pinter into a television film starring Patricia Hodge and Michael Gambon (5) |
| OFLAHERTY | Irish author whose novel The Informer was adapted into a film by John Ford (1'8) |
| COOPER | Author whose novel The Last of the Mohicans was adapted into a film starring Daniel Day-Lewis (6) |
| BUCHAN | Scottish author and politician titled 1st Baron Tweedsmuir whose novel The Thirty-Nine Steps was adapted into a film by Alfred Hitchcock (6) |
| JOHNBUCHAN | Whose novel The Thirty-Nine Steps was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935? (4,6) |
| NESBIT | Author whose novel The Railway Children was adapted into a family film starring Jenny Agutter as Bobbie (6) |
| IRONS | Actor who starred in Harold Pinter's 1981 film adaptation of John Fowles' novel The French Lieutenant's Woman with Meryl Streep (5) |
| PINTER | Harold -; dramatist who wrote The Birthday Party and The Homecoming and adapted John Fowles' novel The French Lieutenant's Woman to screen (6) |
| WHEATLEY | Dennis -; author whose novel The Devil Rides Out was adapted into a film with Christopher Lee (8) |
| ONDAATJE | Author whose novel The English Patient was adapted into a film starring actor Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (8) |
| ARSENIC | Featuring in the title of a play adapted into a film by Frank Capra, the element with germanium to its left and selenium to its right on the periodic table (7) |
| IMPORTANCE | The - of Being Earnest; play by Oscar Wilde that was adapted into a film by Anthony Asquith in 1952 (10) |
| VIEW | A Room with a -; novel by E. M. Forster adapted into a film by James Ivory (4) |
| PORTRAIT | The - of a Lady; novel by Henry James, adapted into a film by Jane Campion (8) |