| LIEFLAT | Become prone to show absolute support for fiction... |
| LIEDOWN | Become prone to tell story with professor outside (3,4) |
| LAYFLAT | Become prone to have a bet at home |
| LIE | Become prone |
| PULITZER | ___ Prize for Fiction (Honour for American-born Canadian author Carol Shields for The Stone Diaries) |
| LIESIDLE | Has no use for fiction to edge along (4,4) |
| WARD | Jesmyn ___, first woman to win two National Book Awards for Fiction |
| EDITH | Author Wharton, first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| JESMYNWARD | In 2017, she became the first woman to win two National Book Awards for fiction |
| MANBOOKER | ___ ___ Prize for Fiction (Margaret Atwood won it in 2000 for The Blind Assassin) |
| THETESTAMENTS | Joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (3,10) |
| MANTEL | Hilary -; two-time winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction for Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies (6) |
| INGE | He won the Pulitzer for Drama the same year that Hemingway won for Fiction |
| ANNE | Sci-fi writer McCaffrey, who was the first woman to win a Hugo for fiction |
| JOSHUACOHEN | Author who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "The Netanyahus" (May, 2022) |
| YIYUN | Li who won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for "The Book of Goose," about a literary hoax concocted by two French teen-agers in the nineteen-fifties (April, 2023) |
| SUSANCHOI | Author who won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction for Trust Exercise: 2 wds. |
| CHARLESYU | Author who won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction for Interior Chinatown: 2 wds. |
| JASONMOTT | Author who won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction for Hell of a Book: 2 wds. |
| TESSGUNTY | Author who won the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction for The Rabbit Hutch: 2 wds. |
