| BARBUSSE | Henri ___, French author of works including the Prix Goncourt-winning wartime novel Le Feu (Under Fire, 1916) (8) |
| COCTEAU | Jean , French author of works including Les Enfants terribles (novel, 1929) and La Machine infernale (play, 1934) (7) |
| BALLARD | J.G., English author and satirist who wrote the wartime novel Empire of the Sun (7) |
| GHOSTROAD | The ---, final instalment of Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy of wartime novels |
| PRIX | The major French literary award, the ... Goncourt |
| NANCY | Birthplace of Edmond de Goncourt and one of the Mitford sisters |
| PIRANDELLO | Luigi ___, Italian author of works including The Turn (novel, 1902) and Six Characters in Search of an Author (play, (1921); Nobel Prize for Literature (1934) (10) |
| OLIVERGOLDSMITH | Irish author of works including The Vicar of Wakefield (novel, 1766) and She Stoops to Conquer (play, 1773) (6,9) |
| DELAMARE | English author of works including The Listeners (poetry collection, 1912) and Memoirs of a Midget (novel, 1921) (6,224) |
| VOLTAIRE | Pseudonym of French writer and philosopher Francois Marie Arouet, author of works including the 1759 satire Candide (8) |
| WALTER | And 24 English author of works including The Listeners (poetry collection, 1912) and Memoirs of a Midget (novel, 1921) (6,2,2,4) |
| BEHAN | Brendan ___, Irish author of works including The Quare Fellow (play, 1956) and Borstal Boy (novel, 1958) (5) |
| BEHN | Author of works including The Rover (play, 1677) and Oroonoko (novel, 1688), considered to have been England's first professional female writer (5,4) |
| APHRA | Author of works including The Rover (play, 1677) and Oroonoko (novel, 1688), considered to have been England's first professional female writer (5,4) |
| CRONIN | AJ ___ (1896-1981), Scottish author of works including The Citadel and Country Doctor (6) |
| WOOLF | Virginia -; author of works including A Room of One's Own and the novel inspired by Vita Sackville-West titled Orlando (5) |
| MESSIAEN | Olivier ___, French composer of works including the orchestral Quartet for the End of Time (1940-1) and Awakening of the Birds (1953) (8) |
| IRIS | _ Murdoch, author of works including The Good Apprentice (4) |
| OFFENBACH | Jacques ___, German-born French composer of works including the 1881 opera The Tales of Hoffmann (9) |
| BALZAC | French author of the 1835 novel Le Pere Goriot (6) |
