| ISHIGURO | Kazuo -; Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun (8) |
| AYA | ___ Cash plays Klara Risinger in The Boys (3) |
| MORRISON | Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Sula (8) |
| LONICERA | Latin name of the day- and nightscented twining flower honeysuckle, important for pollinating moths and in turn bats and hedgehogs (8) |
| MERCHANT | Ismail -; producer who collaborated with director James Ivory on The Remains of the Day and many other films (8) |
| LASTPOST | Which military bugle call is played at the end of the day and during services of remembrance? (4,4) |
| SULLIVAN | Surname of award winning writer of the TV programme "Only Fools and Horses" (8) |
| DESLYNAM | See picture clue: Former presenter of Match of the Day and Countdown (3,5) |
| ANALYSIS | You get this on shows like Match Of The Day and Newsnight (8) |
| WRECKAGE | College head in rag week disposed of the remains (8) |
| WHITE | Patrick -; Nobel Prize-winning author of novels including The Eye of the Storm, A Fringe of Leaves, Happy Valley and The Tree of Man (5) |
| LESSING | Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grass Is Singing, The Golden Notebook and the Canopus in Argos series (7) |
| MUNRO | Nobel Prize-winning author of Lives of Girls and Women and The Moons of Jupiter; or, a Scottish mountain such as Ben Nevis or Lochnagar (5) |
| NAIPAUL | Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author of A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State and The Enigma of Arrival (7) |
| BOWEN | Novelist who wrote The Last September, The Death of the Heart, The Heat of the Day and Eva Trout (5) |
| LURIE | Alison -; Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The War Between the Tates and Foreign Affairs (5) |
| BUTLER | Stevens, the narrator of "The Remains of the Day," for one |
| AUDEN | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Letters from Iceland, For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio and of the poems published posthumously in the collection Thank You, Fog (5) |
| KIPLING | Nobel Prize-winning author who wrote The Jungle Book, Stalky and Co, Puck of Pook's Hill and Just So |
| REEVE | Christopher of "The Remains of the Day" |
