| HGWELLS | English novelist who wrote some of the earliest science fiction novels, such as The War of the Worlds. (1,1,5) |
| GEORGEGERSHWIN | Composer of the music for Porgy and Bess (his brother Ira wrote some of the lyrics): 2 wds. |
| DEFOE | He wrote some of his best paragraphs on Friday |
| SIXDAY | The 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict was known as the ... War (3,3) |
| WELLS | One of England's smallest cities; or, the author of science-fiction novels including The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds (5) |
| SIDNEY | Best-selling author of novels such as Master of the Game and The Other Side of Midnight who also created the TV series I Dream of Jeannie and Hart to Hart (6,7) |
| SHELDON | Best-selling author of novels such as Master of the Game and The Other Side of Midnight who also created the TV series I Dream of Jeannie and Hart to Hart (6,7) |
| IVAN | First Russian recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1933) known for novels such as The Village (1910) and The Life of Arseniev (1927-39) (4,5) |
| BUNIN | First Russian recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1933) known for novels such as The Village (1910) and The Life of Arseniev (1927-39) (4,5) |
| GOLDING | Nobel Prize-winning English novelist who wrote Lord of the Flies and the To the Ends of the Earth trilogy (7) |
| BEATON | M. C. -; pen name of the author of the Hamish Macbeth series of novels such as Death of a Gossip, De |
| ALANGARNER | English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels such as The Owl Service and Red Shift |
| DICK | Philip K ___, author of science fiction novels The Man in the High Castle and The Game-Players of Ti |
| ROSSINI | Italian composer who wrote some 40 operas by the age of 38 including Otello, The Barber of Seville and William Tell (7) |
| MISSREAD | Pen name of the author of the Fairacre novels such as Village School, Miss Clare Remembers, Over the |
| WYNDHAM | John ___, English author of science fiction novels; The Day of the Triffids (1951) |
| SMOLLETT | Tobias ---, 18th Century Scottish poet and author known for novels such as The Adventures Of Roderick Random (8) |
| RURITANIA | Fictional land created by Anthony Hope, featuring in novels such as 'The Prisoner of Zenda' (9) |
| PHILIPKDICK | Author of the science fiction novels The Man in the High Castle and Ubik (6,1,4) |
| WEXFORD | Reginald -; name of the inspector in Ruth Rendell's novels such as Some Lie And Some Die, An Unkindn |
