| EDNAOBRIEN | Irish author whose novels include The Country Girls |
| OBRIEN | Irish author whose novels include The Country Girls, August Is a Wicked Month and The Light of Evening (1'5) |
| EDNA | ___ O'Brien, Irish writer whose novels include The Country Girls (4) |
| JAMESJOYCE | Irish author whose works include 'Ulysses' (5,5) |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish writer whose only novel is The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| DOYLE | Roddy - - -, Irish author whose novels include The Commitments (5) |
| MAEVEBINCHY | Irish author whose novels include Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends |
| BINGCROSBY | Oscar nominee for "The Country Girl" (1954) |
| GRACEKELLY | Shown, "The Country Girl" star: 2 wds. |
| BINCHY | Irish author whose novels include Circle of Friends, Evening Class, Minding Frankie and A Week in Winter (6) |
| EDGEWORTH | Anglo-Irish author whose novels include Letters for Literary Ladies, Castle Rackrent and Tales of Fashionable Life (9) |
| CECELIAAHERN | Irish author whose novels include PS, I Love You and Where Rainbows End (7,5) |
| OFLAHERTY | Irish author whose novel The Informer was adapted into a film by John Ford (1'8) |
| JOYCE | James ---, Irish author whose works include the novel Finnegans Wake (5) |
| BEHAN | Irish writer whose works include the play 'The Quare Fellow' (5) |
| LYNCH | Irish author whose Prophet Song won the 2023 Booker Prize. (5) |
| BRENDAN | Irish writer whose plays include The Quare Fellow (7,5) |
| NEILL | Actor in films including The Country Girls. The Piano, The Horse Whisperer and Blackbird who also played the part of Thomas Wolsey in The Tudors (5) |
| ODETS | Clifford, author of the plays Waiting for Lefty and The Country Girl (5) |
| AMERICA | The Country Girls - named Dawn and Heather? (7) |
