| HENRYJAMES | Author whose novels include The Bostonians and The Ambassadors |
| IVORY | James, director of the films The Bostonians and The Europeans (5) |
| EDWINACURRIE | Former MP for South Derbyshire; author of novels Chasing Men and The Ambassador |
| JAMES | Henry ___, author of The Bostonians (5) |
| AMERICANS | A man cries out in The Bostonians (9) |
| REEVE | "The Bostonians" (1984) star Christopher |
| TONI | Collette found amid The Bostonians (4) |
| VANESSAREDGRAVE | The Bostonians actress (7,8) |
| SPARK | Author whose novels include The Comforters,The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (adapted into a film with Maggie Smith), The Girls of Slender Means, A Far Cry From Kensington and The Finishing School (5) |
| FREDERICKFORSYTH | Author whose novels include The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File |
| WYNDHAM | John -; author whose novels include The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos (7) |
| LECARRE | Pen name of the author whose novels include The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2,5) |
| WOUK | Herman ___, Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose novels include The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War and War and Remembrance |
| ELIOT | George _, author whose novels include The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch (5) |
| HOLBEIN | Artist whose The Ambassadors depicts Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve with items including a globe, anamorphic skull and a lute with a broken string (7) |
| TREVANIAN | Author born Rodney Whitaker whose novels include The Crazyladies of Pearl Street and The Eiger Sanct |
| BAINBRIDGE | Liverpudlian author whose novels include The Bottle Factory Outing, Sweet William, A Quiet Life and An Awfully Big Adventure (adapted into a film starring Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant) (10) |
| OBRIEN | Irish author whose novels include The Country Girls, August Is a Wicked Month and The Light of Evening (1'5) |
| LAWRENCE | Son of a coalminer and a lace-maker, a prolific writer whose novels include The White Peacock, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover (8) |
| RAND | Ayn -; Russian-born US author and philosopher whose novels include The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged (4) |