| NESBO | Jo ___, Norwegian author of the Harry Hole crime novel series (5) |
| IBSEN | Norwegian author of the 1867 play Peer Gynt, Henrik _ (5) |
| JONESBO | Author of the Harry Hole novels (2,5) |
| GRIEG | Edvard ___, Norwegian composer of the incidental music for Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (5) |
| MUNCH | Edvard ___, Norwegian painter whose works include 1907's The Sick Child (5) |
| JOSTEINGAARDER | Norwegian author of the 1991 bestseller Sophie’s World |
| GREIG | Edvard _, Norwegian composer (5) |
| OLSEN | Ole ___, Norwegian composer |
| LARSSON | Stieg ---, author of the Millennium crime novel series (7) |
| JANETEVANOVICH | Author of the Stephanie Plum crime novel series including Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine (2022): 2 wds. |
| JK | "Rowling" along: The initials of the writer of the Harry Potter books (or what a texter types when she's "just kidding") |
| ROWLING | With 10.3 million Twitter followers, the author of the Harry Potter books (7) |
| LONGSHADOWS | Seventh and latest installment in the Amos Decker crime novel series: 2 wds. |
| ONEFORTHEMONEY | First book in the Stephanie Plum crime novel series (1994): 4 wds. |
| TWOFORTHEDOUGH | Second book in the Stephanie Plum crime novel series (1996): 4 wds. |
| WALKTHEWIRE | Sixth installment in the Amos Decker crime novel series that began with 2015's Memory Man: 3 wds. |
| HOLIERTHANTHOU | Harry Hole author -- thin, extremely patronising (6-4-4) |
| HOLE | Harry, fictional detective created by Norwegian author Jo Nesbo (4) |
| KNUTHAMSUN | Norwegian author awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920 |
| AMUNDSEN | Roald _, Norwegian explorer and navigator; leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole (8) |
