| MANTEL | Hilary ___, the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice, for the novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies |
| CAREY | Australian novelist who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang (5,5) |
| PETER | Australian novelist who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang (5,5) |
| PETERCAREY | Australian novelist who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang (5,5) |
| HILARYMANTEL | Author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies |
| EVARISTO | Bernardine ___, the first black woman to win the Booker Prize |
| KERIHULME | First New Zealand writer to win the Booker Prize, for The Bone People (4,5) |
| BRINGUPTHEBODIES | Hilary Mantel novel, a follow-up to Wolf Hall, and winner of the 2012 Man Booker prize |
| TONI | Who authored the novel Beloved and became, in 1993, the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize? (first name only) |
| WANGARI | Kenyan environmental and social activist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize (first name only) |
| EDITH | ___ Wharton The Age of Innocence novelist and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature |
| CURIE | Co-discoverer with her husband of radium and polonium and only woman to have been awarded a Nobel Prize twice (5) |
| FOY | Actress who has earned a queenly sum of accolades for her roles as Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall and as the first Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown (3) |
| BERTHA | ______ von Suttner became, in 1905, the first woman to win the Peace Prize; she played a key role in creating the Nobel Peace Prize as well |
| RACHELWHITEREAD | Artist noted for her public sculptures who was the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993 (6,9) |
| HUGO | Victor ___, French poet, novelist, and dramatist best known for the novels Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris |
| VICTORHUGO | French poet, novelist, and dramatist best known for the novels Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris |
| ANTHONYTROLLOPE | 19th-century English author best known for the novels of the Barsetshire and Palliser series (7,8) |
| ASTOR | Nancy ___, the first woman to serve as an MP in the British House of Commons (5) |
| ANDERSON | Elizabeth Garrett _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , the first woman in the UK to qualify as a professional doctor in 1865 (8) |
