| STERNE | Demanding English novelist (6) |
| EXIGENT | Demanding English team win round noon (7) |
| HUXLEY | English novelist 1894-1963; author of Crome Yellow and Mortal Coils (6,6) |
| ALDOUS | English novelist 1894-1963; author of Crome Yellow and Mortal Coils (6,6) |
| GEORGE | Pseudonym of the 20th-century English novelist, essayist and critic Eric Arthur Blair (6,6) |
| ORWELL | Pseudonym of the 20th-century English novelist, essayist and critic Eric Arthur Blair (6,6) |
| AUSTEN | Jane ..., English novelist (6) |
| SEWELL | Puff about key to English novelist (6) |
| RABBLE | Crowd obscuring first appearance of English novelist (6) |
| GREENE | Place for putting European or English novelist (6) |
| MCEWAN | English novelist, Ian ... (6) |
| THOMAS | _ Hardy, English novelist (6) |
| ARCHER | English novelist, one taking bow? (6) |
| DAPHNE | --- du Maurier, English novelist (6) |
| BRONTE | English novelist travelling to Bern (6) |
| RAMBLE | Go for a long walk with English novelist, right to the top (6) |
| EVELYN | --- Waugh, English novelist whose works include Brideshead Revisited (6) |
| NESBIT | E. -; English novelist who wrote The Railway Children (6) |
| BRAINE | John, English novelist noted for his book Room at the Top published in 1957 (6) |
| KNIGHT | Eric, English novelist who created the fictional collie Lassie (6) |
