| IANMCEWAN | British writer who won the Booker Prize in 1998 for "Amsterdam" |
| TACITADEAN | English visual artist who was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998 and made an OBE in the 2013 New Year Honours list |
| BELIEVE | Huge No.1 hit in 1998 for a particularly robotic-sounding 6D (7) |
| TRL | MTV countdown show that premiered in 1998, for short |
| MONET | A painting by which French Impressionist sold in 1998 for 19.8 million? (5) |
| PATBARKER | British writer who won the Booker Prize in 1995 for "The Ghost Road" |
| IAN | British author who won the Booker Prize for his novel Amsterdam, ... McEwan |
| MARGARETATWOOD | Canadian writer who won the Booker Prize in 2000 for "The Blind Assassin" |
| NADINEGORDIMER | South African writer who won the Booker Prize in 1974 for "The Conservationist" |
| JHABVALA | Ruth Prawer ---, German-born British writer who won the Booker Prize and two Oscars (8) |
| BYATT | A.S. ---, British novelist who won the Booker Prize in 1990 for Possession (5) |
| ATWOOD | Margaret, author who won the Booker Prize in 2000 for The Blind Assassin (6) |
| NAIPAUL | V S ___ (1932 - 2018) Trinidadian writer who won the Booker Prize in 1971 with In a Free State (7) |
| ISHIGUEU | Kazuo ___ (b 1954), Nagasaki-born British writer who won the Novel Prize in Literature in 2017 (8) |
| WILLIAM | British writer who won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature (7,7) |
| GOLDING | British writer who won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature (7) |
| HILARYMANTEL | English novelist who won the Booker Prize in 2009 and 2012 for her novels about Thomas Cromwell (6,6) |
| DOYLE | Roddy ---, Irish writer who won the Booker Prize in 1993 with his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (5) |
| OKRI | Ben _, Nigerian poet and novelist who won the Booker Prize in 1991 with The Famished Road (4) |
| MANTEL | Hilary _, English novelist who won the Booker Prize in 2009 and 2012 (6) |
