| HENRYJAMES | Author whose novels include The Bostonians and The Ambassadors (5,5) |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| EDNAOBRIEN | Irish author whose novels include The Country Girls |
| DHLAWRENCE | English author whose novels include The Rainbow |
| EVAHORNUNG | Whose novels include the acclaimed Dog Boy (2009) |
| EXCELLENCY | Goodness, what do I say to the ambassador? (10) |
| MOBILEHOME | Trailer showing Mafia on French island getting Mo back to plug the ambassador? (6,4) |
| JAMES | Henry ___, author of The Bostonians (5) |
| 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 |
| AMERICANS | A man cries out in The Bostonians (9) |
| TONI | Collette found amid The Bostonians (4) |
| 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 |
| AMBLER | British author whose novels include The Mask of Dimitrios and The Light of Day |
| ERIC | British author whose novels include The Mask of Dimitrios and The Light of Day |
| ELIOT | George _, author whose novels include The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch (5) |