| POLEMICIST | Controversial writer (10) |
| DHLAWRENCE | Controversial author of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1,1,8) |
| MARX | Notices vociferous and controversial writer |
| EZRA | Controversial writer Levant |
| MARQUISDESADE | Dadaism's queer founders presenting a controversial writer (7,2,4) |
| RUSHDIE | Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini died before he could lift the death sentence imposed on controversial writer, Salman ... |
| RAND | Ayn -, controversial author of Atlas Shrugged (4) |
| POLEMISTS | Controversial writers in Eastern European fogs (9) |
| NABOKOV | Arrest fine old very controversial author (7) |
| SALMONRUSHDIE | Controversial author of The Satanic Verses (6, 7) |
| SALMANRUSHDIE | Controversial author whose novel Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981 |
| PERIODICAL | Police raid controversial magazine perhaps (10) |
| IMPLICATED | Climate dip is controversial and involved (10) |
| BULLFIGHTS | Controversial Spanish entertainments (10) |
| TARTRAZINE | Controversial food-colouring chemical (10) |
| BERLUSCONI | Madoff, for example, consumed by endless capital, as controversial multi-millionaire (10) |
| EUTHANASIA | Controversial practice giving one continent less rope than another (10) |
| COPENHAGEN | Frank blocked controversial change in accord here on 9 (10) |
| SANDILANDS | Controversial radio star who co-hosts with Jackie O, Kyle ___ (10) |
| NOURISHING | Supplying good food to rough inn is controversial (10) |
