| SARTRE | Jean-Paul -; existentialist philosopher and novelist who wrote Nausea and The Roads to Freedom series including The Age of Reason (6) |
| LAURALINNEY | Actress in the 2020 films Falling and The Roads Not Taken (5,6) |
| FUGARD | South African dramatist who wrote the plays Blood Knot and The Road to Mecca and the novel Tsotsi (6 |
| GODWIN | William -; political philosopher and novelist who was the father of the Frankenstein author who married Percy Bysshe Shelley (6) |
| IRONINTHESOUL | The third part of Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy Roads To Freedom (4,2,3,4) |
| JEANPAULSARTRE | French philosopher and novelist who declined the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 (4-4,6) |
| REA | British rock and blues star whose hits include Auberge, On The Beach and The Road to Hell (5,3) |
| CHRIS | British rock and blues star whose hits include Auberge, On The Beach and The Road to Hell (5,3) |
| SIMONE | and 7dn, , French existentialist philosopher and author whose works include 1949's The Second Sex (6,2,8) |
| DEBEAUVOIR | and 7dn, , French existentialist philosopher and author whose works include 1949's The Second Sex (6,2,8) |
| WESTLAKE | Donald E -, author of the novels Corkscrew and The Road to Ruin (8) |
| IDLE | Eric, author of the novels Hello Sailor and The Road to Mars (4) |
| KINGSLEY | Charles ---, 19th Century historian and novelist who wrote the children's classic The Water-Babies (8) |
| STRINDBERG | Dramatist and novelist who wrote The Red Room, Miss Julie and A Dream Play (10) |
| SASSOON | War poet and novelist who wrote Counter-Attack and the Sherston trilogy (7) |
| PAGNOL | Marcel - - -, French dramatist, filmmaker and novelist who wrote Jean De Florette and Manon Des Sources (6) |
| OKRA | Ben -; Booker Prize-winning poet and novelist who wrote The Famished Road and In Arcadia (4) |
| ANDREADWORKIN | "Intercourse" writer who envisioned a "road to freedom open to women, men, and that emerging majority, the rest of us" |
| BYGEORGE | As were Daniel Deronda and The Road to Wigan Pier - gosh! (2,6) |
| INGELOW | Jean, English poet and novelist who wrote several stories for children (7) |
