| SHORTLIST | Group considered for the Booker Prize |
| STALLONE | Rocky star considered for the film Sudden Death (Jean-Claude Van Damme eventually took the part instead) |
| DREAMTEAM | Group considered as perfect for a given task |
| ELITE | Group considered to have superior status (5) |
| UNIT | Single individual or group, considered as one (4) |
| BAINBRIDGE | Beryl ---, English novelist who was nominated for the Booker Prize five times, including for 1998's Master Georgie (10) |
| TREES | "The ___" (dark Percival Everett satire short-listed for the Booker Prize in September, 2022) |
| PRAXIS | Fay Weldon novel shortlisted for the Booker Prize (6) |
| ATONEMENT | Ian McEwan novel shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001 |
| SHAME | 1983 Salman Rushdie novel shortlisted for the Booker Prize (5) |
| TIMESARROW | 1991 Martin Amis novel shortlisted for the Booker Prize |
| ANITA | --- Desai, Indian novelist shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times (5) |
| NICEWORK | 1988 novel by David Lodge that was shortlisted for the Booker prize |
| THETREES | 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award-winner by Percival Everett nominated for the Booker Prize (3,5) |
| AUSTER | Paul ***** , author whose 2017 novel '4321' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize (6) |
| ROSETREMAIN | Author whose 1989 novel Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker Prize |
| CLOUD | --- Atlas, 2004 novel by David Mitchell, short-listed for the Booker Prize (5) |
| ILLYWHACKER | Second novel by Australian author Peter Carey, short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1985 (11) |
| SPLEEN | Case for pedal stops considered for organ |
| STAT | Number considered for a potential hall of famer for short |
