| WILLIAMGOLDING | British novelist, poet, playwright best known for his novel Lord of the Flies |
| GOLDING | William ---, 20th Century British author best known for his novel Lord Of The Flies (7) |
| ROALDDAHL | British novelist, poet and screenwriter whose film scripts include You Only Live Twice and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| AMIS | "Kingsley _', British novelist, poet and critic (4) |
| SYNGE | John Millington ___, Irish playwright best known for 1907's The Playboy of the Western World (5) |
| RALPH | Who is the main protagonist in William Golding's 1954 novel Lord of the Flies? (5) |
| ENID | --- Bagnold, British author and playwright best known for the 1935 story National Velvet (4) |
| ROGER | In Golding's novel Lord of the Flies (1954), who killed Piggy? (5) |
| ALBEE | Edward ____, playwright best known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| JOHNOSBORNE | English playwright best known for his 1956 play Look Back in Anger (4,7) |
| ODETS | Clifford ___, American playwright best known for Waiting for Lefty |
| SUETOWNSEND | English novelist and playwright best known for creating Adrian Mole |
| SOPHOCLES | One of the three great Athenian tragic playwrights, best known for Oedipus Rex (9) |
| FRAYN | Michael ___, British playwright best known for Noises Off |
| APULEIUS | Lucius ___, Numidian writer of ancient Rome best known for his novel Metamorphoses, also known as The Golden Ass (8) |
| OSCAR | Forename of a dramatist, novelist, poet and wit who also wrote short stories including The Fisherman and His Soul, The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant and The Star-Child (5) |
| ELLISON | Ralph ---, 20th Century American novelist best known for his novel Invisible Man (7) |
| TRESSELL | Robert ___, Irish writer best known for his novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
| MARIOPUZO | Who is best known for his novel The Godfather? (5,4) |
| CORNWELL | British author best known for his novels about Richard Sharpe, set during the Napoleonic Wars (8) |