| INDIA | Birthplace of novelist Rohinton Mistry |
| AFINE | Novel by Canadian author Rohinton Mistry, _ ___ Balance |
| AFINEBALANCE | Giller Prize winning novel by Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry: 3 wds. |
| ALDERSHOT | Hampshire town west of Guildford, birthplace of novelist Ian McEwan (9) |
| PERU | Birthplace of novelist Daniel Alarcon |
| GERALDTON | WA birthplace of novelists Xavier Herbert and Randolph Stow (9) |
| MISTRY | Canadian author Rohinton of A Fine Balance |
| INSOLVENT | Bust of novelist fractured around tip of nose (9) |
| RHYS | Pen name of novelist of Wide Sargasso Sea (4) |
| ROHINTON | Canadian author Mr. Mistry of 1995 Giller Prize winning novel A Fine Balance |
| JIMI | __ Mistry, plays Corrie personal trainer Kal Nazir (4) |
| GURU | 2002 film comedy starring Jimi Mistry, The ___ (4) |
| FLAVIA | _ Cacace, Italian dancer married to Jimi Mistry (6) |
| HAIESHA | ___ Mistry, plays Yasmine Cunningham in Hollyoaks (7) |
| KINGSLEY | Novelist and father of novelist Martin, his first book, Lucky Jim, was published in 1955; Sir ... Am |
| AMIS | Kingsley -; author of Lucky Jim who was the third husband of novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard (4) |
| EVANS | What was the real surname of novelist Mary Anne, who was published under the name of George Eliot? (5) |
| ORWELL | Pen name of novelist Eric Arthur Blair, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four (6) |
| ANTHONY | First name of novelist best known for his 12-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time (7) |
| HUNGARIAN | The nationality of novelist Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the 2025 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (9) |
