| MCCULLOUGH | Colleen, Australian novelist noted for The Thorn Birds (10) |
| STRINDBERG | Swedish dramatist and novelist noted for The Red Room and A Dream Play (10) |
| ECO | Umberto, Italian novelist noted for The Name of the Rose (3) |
| BANVILLE | John, Irish novelist noted for The Sea (8) |
| WORDSWORTH | One of the Lake Poets whose works include the collection Lyrical Ballads (with Coleridge), The Thorn and The World Is Too Much with Us (10) |
| PETERCAREY | Australian novelist who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang (5,5) |
| SHEEPSTATION | Drogheda, the setting for Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds novel (5,7) |
| CHAMBERLAIN | Richard ___, late actor noted for his roles in Dr Kildare and The Thorn Birds (11) |
| STANWYCK | Star of The Thorn Birds and Connie in The Colbys, Barbara ... (8) |
| COLLEEN | The Thorn Birds novelist McCullough |
| SAGA | 'The Thorn Birds,' for one |
| MORRISWEST | Popular Australian novelist |
| SAGAS | "The Thorn Birds" and others |
| NAN | Actress Martin "The Thorn Birds" (2005) |
| KING | Novelist noted for horror and supernatural fiction such as The Shining, It, Misery and The Green Mile (4) |
| HEBATES | English novelist noted for works including Love for Lydia (1952) and The Darling Buds of May (1958) (1,1,5) |
| KEROUAC | Jack, US novelist noted for his book On The Road (7) |
| ELENA | ____ Ferrante, pen name of the novelist noted for her Neapolitan Novels (5) |
| BRAINE | John, English novelist noted for his book Room at the Top published in 1957 (6) |
| PHILIPPA | ____ Gregory, English historical novelist noted for her 2001 work The Other Boleyn Girl (8) |
