| DICKENS | Charles -; novelist who wrote A Christmas Carol, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth (7) |
| READE | Charles -, novelist who wrote Peg Woffington, Hard Cash, The Cloister And The Hearth, etc. (5) |
| JEAN | Shepherd who co-wrote "A Christmas Story" |
| ZALTZMAN | ... and the cricket fanatic who won the series! (8) |
| ANDY | ... and the cricket fanatic who won the series! (4) |
| RHYMES | Chimes and dimes vis-a-vis this clue's answer |
| ITCHES | It chimes and I'm put out. Is irritating (6) |
| FORSTER | Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years, the novelist who wrote A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India (7) |
| NAIPAUL | Awarded a Nobel Prize in 2001, a Trinidad-born Oxford-educated novelist who wrote A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State and The Enigma of Arrival (7) |
| LONGLEG | A fielding position in cricket on the on side far behind the batter (4,3) |
| FIREDOG | Having shot, go back and stand it on the hearth (7) |
| HEARTH | The Cricket on the -; novella preceded by A Christmas Carol (6) |
| BURNETT | Carol ......., the doyenne of American comedians (7) |
| RUNAWAY | Bolter scoring one at cricket on opponents' ground (7) |
| SPINOUT | Prolong element in cricket on display? (4,3) |
| LEGSIDE | Cricket's 'on' (3,4) |
| SHUTE | Pen name of the novelist who wrote A Town Like Alice and On the Beach (5) |
| WREN | Known collectively as a herd or a chime and depicted on farthings, the "king of the birds" with a female married to a robin redbreast in an old poem (4) |
| HYDE | Which Australian composer wrote Christmas Card Fantasy (1955) on the carol The Holly and the Ivy? (4) |
| HUGHES | Richard -; novelist who wrote A High Wind in Jamaica, In Hazard and The Fox in the Attic (6) |
