| THEROAD | Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for this post-apocalyptic tale of a father and son (3 |
| SAP | Fool upset old man and son (3) |
| ANITADESAI | Indian three-time Booker nominee whose daughter won the prize in 2006 |
| TEDDY | ___ McCarthy won All-Ireland medals in both hurling and football in the same year. (5) |
| JUNKMAIL | No one applies for this post (4,4) |
| FIRSTCLASS | Splendid armour required for this post! (5-5,4) |
| MAIL | Splendid armour required for this post! (5-5,4) |
| SWAHN | Identify this family that holds the record of winning the most medals in Olympic history for a father and son duo? (5) |
| DOMBEY | Surname of a father and son in a Dickens novel (6) |
| BUCK | The last name of the woman who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for her novel, "The Good Earth" (or slang word for a dollar) |
| MUSHROOM | Toxic ingredient in a Thai curry that caused the death of a father and daughter after consumption. (8) |
| EDITH | ___ Wharton The Age of Innocence novelist and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature |
| WOODWARD | Bob _, journalist whose investigation of the Watergate scandal with a fellow Washington Post reporter won the newspaper a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 (8) |
| OLEN | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain author Robert ___ Butler who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 |
| WHAUDEN | Which English-born poet won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 with "The Age of Anxiety"? (1,1,5) |
| VICEVERSA | Novel by F Anstey, about the transformation of a father into his son, and of the schoolboy into his father (4,5) |
| HADLEE | Surname of a father and three sons who all played Test cricket for New Zealand (6) |
| EUDORAWELTY | American author whose novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 (6,5) |
| PAPER | Journal of a father and a childless person (5) |
| ROETHKE | Theodore -; recipient of the 1954 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his volume of verse The Waking (7) |
