| EASTERNER | For example, Georgian monarch welcoming a novelist from Ireland (9) |
| AUSTEN | American figure inferior to a novelist from England (6) |
| STEINBECK | Novelist from South suffering neck bite (9) |
| SUSANHILL | Novelist from America entering the abused NHS when sick (5,4) |
| GOVERNESS | ? and to get chitchat about his novelist from tutor |
| AUTHORIAL | A harlot, I suspect, stealing Waugh's heart as a novelist? (9) |
| TRAVERSAL | Crossing a line, a novelist left (9) |
| THACKERAY | Tabloid's No 1 journalist takes year off to become a novelist (9) |
| AUTHORISE | A novelist is expected, initially, to grand permission (9) |
| FOOLHARDY | Rash enough to deceive a novelist (9) |
| TUBA | Ron, a leading novelist from Braunton, also plays a brass instrument (4) |
| MEANIE | Lawrence, a famous novelist from Minehead, was a terribly unkind person (6) |
| TSARIST | Mike, a top novelist from St Martin's, got into trouble writing about a person of great power in Russia (7) |
| FILANDS | This leading novelist from Finland has a son who lives in a tiny place near Malmesbury (7) |
| ELGRECO | Painter and composer with a missing novelist from Italy (2,5) |
| PENNY | Small change for novelist from the Big Apple (5) |
| HARDY | Novelist from Dorset who penned Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (5) |
| DOPE | Ray, a leading novelist from Neopardy, is unconventional and regarded as cool by younger people (4) |
| STANCE | Lou, a top novelist from Launceston, has written about his standpoint on various subjects (6) |
| GRASS | Novelist from Greece New Yorker's behind (5) |
