| BENELTON | British comedian noted for his novels Dead Famous and High Society (3,5) |
| CLIFTON | Bernie, British comedian noted for working with orange puppet Oswald the Ostrich (7) |
| MORTIMER | Bob, comedian noted for his TV series on fishing with Paul Whitehouse (8) |
| ELTON | Ben, English actor, comedian and author noted for his novels Popcorn and High Society (5) S |
| CORNWELL | British author best known for his novels about Richard Sharpe, set during the Napoleonic Wars (8) |
| RICHHALL | U.S. stand-up comedian noted for playing Otis Lee Crenshaw, a fictional country singer (4,4) |
| THEODORE | _ Dreiser, U.S. novelist born in 1871, noted noted for his novel Sister Carrie (8) |
| EPILEPSY | Disorder from which Dostoyevsky and many characters in his novels suffered |
| STENDHAL | Pen name of French writer noted for his novel 'The Charterhouse of Parma' (8) |
| KENEALLY | Thomas, Australian writer noted for his novel Schindler's Ark (8) |
| BENCHLEY | Peter, author noted for his novel Jaws published in 1974 (8) |
| KOESTLER | Arthur ******** , author noted for his novel 'Darkness at Noon' (8) |
| SMOLLETT | Tobias ___, writer noted for his novel The Adventures of Roderick Random |
| DOCTOROW | E.L. ******, US writer noted for his novel 'Billy Bathgate' (8) |
| IAINBANKS | Scottish author noted for his novels The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road (4,5) |
| DENNIS | ____ Lehane, author noted for his novels Mystic River and Shutter Island (6) |
| ISHIGURO | Nobel Prize-winning author knighted in February this year, his novels include An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go (8) |
| MELVILLE | Author whose first-hand experiences on a whaling ship formed the basis of his novels including Moby-Dick and Omoo (8) |
| BRIGHTON | Resort town in which Graham Greene set one of his novels (8) |
| DAWSON | Les ___ , English comedian noted for his curmudgeonly persona and mother-in-law jokes (6) |
