| EGON | Hungarian-born writer and food critic, --- Ronay (4) |
| DIMBLEBY | Henry ___, cookery writer and food campaigner born in 1970 (8) |
| KOESTLER | Arthur ___, Hungarian-born writer whose works include the novel Darkness at Noon and The Ghost in the Machine |
| MOLNAR | Ferenc ___, Hungarian-born writer whose play Liliom was adapted into the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel |
| GRAY | Alasdair ___ (1934 - 2019), Glasgow-born writer and artist who wrote Lanark (1981) (4) |
| MCCANN | Which Derry-born writer and activist wrote War and an Irish Town? (6) |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish-born writer and wit (1854-1900) (5,5) |
| PRIESTLEY | JB ___ (1894-1984), Bradford-born writer and broadcaster (9) |
| PATERSON | Aileen ___ (1934-2018), Burntisland-born writer and illustrator (8) |
| IRISMURDOCH | Dublin-born writer and philosopher |
| OKRI | Ben ---, Nigerian-born writer who was guest director of the Yorkshire Festival of Story in 2022 (4) |
| SAUL | Canadian-born writer Bellow |
| ANET | Swiss-born writer Jean Schopfer's nom de plume, Claude ___ |
| ELIE | Romanian-born writer Wiesel |
| GREER | Germaine - - -, Australian-born writer and academic whose ground-breaking works include The Female Eunuch (5) |
| ELIEWIESEL | Romanian-born writer and Holocaust survivor awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 |
| MATTPRESTON | Master Chef judge and food critic (4,7) |
| GILES | ***** Coren, columnist and food critic born in 1969 (5) |
| RAYNER | Journalist and food critic, Jay _ (6) |
| OREGANO | Egon Ronay cooked without tip of yummy new herb (7) |
