| RUNCIE | James -; novelist who wrote The Grantchester Mysteries (6) |
| BROOKE | First World War poet who wrote The Soldier and The Old Vicarage, Grantchester whose death in 1915, at 27, was caused by a mosquito bite (6) |
| NORTON | James, actor who played vicar Sidney Chambers in Grantchester (6) |
| SIDNEY | James Norton in Grantchester, Rev . ... Chambers (6) |
| ROBSON | Actor who plays Geordie Keating in ITV's Grantchester, _ Green (6) |
| SHARPE | Author of Porterhouse Blue, Grantchester Grind. Wilt, Blott on the Landscape and Vintage Stuff (6) |
| SELINE | _ Hizli, Grantchester actress (6) |
| NESBIT | Novelist who wrote The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Railway Children (6) |
| HADDON | Mark -; novelist who wrote The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (6) |
| WILSON | Angus -; novelist who wrote The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and The Old Men at the Zoo (6) |
| IBANEZ | Vicente _, Spanish novelist who wrote The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (6) |
| AGATHA | _ Christie, detective novelist who wrote the play The Mouse Trap (6) |
| ATWOOD | Margaret -; novelist who wrote The Testaments as a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (6) |
| SEBOLD | Alice ___, U.S. novelist who wrote the novel The Lovely Bones published in 2002 (6) |
| ALDISS | Brian -; novelist who wrote the Helliconia trilogy (6) |
| CATTON | Eleanor, New Zealand novelist who wrote The Luminaries (6) |
| BALZAC | Honore de_, French novelist who wrote The Human Comedy (6) |
| SAYERS | Novelist who wrote the Lord Peter Wimsey books including Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness and Unnatural Death (6) |
| ARCHER | Jeffrey -; MP-turned-novelist who wrote the Kane and Abel series and Clifton Chronicles (6) |
| SYLVIA | Tragic poet and novelist who wrote The Bell Jar, ... Plath |
