| PROUST | Marcel, French novelist who died in 1922 (6) |
| ECO | Novelist who died in Milan in February |
| WALLACE | Edgar, English crime novelist who died in 1932 (7) |
| EDNA | ___ O'Brien, Irish novelist who died in 2024 (4) |
| PAGNOL | Marcel - - -, French dramatist, filmmaker and novelist who wrote Jean De Florette and Manon Des Sources (6) |
| BALZAC | Honore de_, French novelist who wrote The Human Comedy (6) |
| FRANCE | French novelist who won the 1921 Nobel prize for literature (6) |
| CASTRATO | Alessandro Moreschi, who died in 1922, was the last ____ to sing in the Sistine chapel |
| COLLINS | Michael, Irish politician and Sinn Fein leader who died in 1922 (7) |
| SHACKLETON | Ernest Henry, British Antarctic explorer who died in 1922 (10) |
| MARCELPROUST | French novelist who wrote In Search Of Lost Time (6,6) |
| TOLSTOY | Novelist who died at Astapovo train station, 400km southeast of Moscow, in 1910 (7) |
| VICTORHUGO | French novelist who wrote Les Miserables published in 1862 (6,4) |
| HUGO | French novelist who lived in exile in Guernsey from 1855-1870 (4) |
| CAMUS | Albert ___ (1913 - 60) French novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957 |
| CLAUDESIMON | French novelist who won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| LOTI | Pierre ___ (French novelist who influenced Marcel Proust) |
| RENAULT | Fernand, Louis and Marcel, French brothers who formed a car company in 1899 (7) |
| MARCEAU | Marcel -, French mime artist who created the character Bip (7) |
| SAND | George ---, 19th Century French novelist who controversially wore men's clothing and smoked tobacco in public (4) |
