| AMIS | Martin ___, British novelist (4) |
| RYLE | Martin ___, British Astronomer Royal 1972-82; Nobel Prize for Physics (1974, with Antony Hewish) (4) |
| ENNALS | Martin ___, British human rights activist and former Amnesty International leader (6) |
| SELF | Will ___, British novelist; identity (4) |
| DELAMARE | Walter ___, British novelist and poet (2,2,4) |
| TOLKIEN | J. R. R. _; British novelist (7) |
| ARMITAGE | Simon _; British novelist, playwright and current poet Laureate (8) |
| DRABBLE | Dame Margaret_, British novelist, biographer and editor (7) |
| INNES | Hammond ___, British novelist |
| MCEWAN | Ian ___, British novelist whose books include Enduring Love and Atonement (3,6) |
| IAN | Ian ___, British novelist whose books include Enduring Love and Atonement (3,6) |
| MANNING | Olivia _; British novelist known for her Fortunes of War sequence of books (7) |
| BAINBRIDGE | Beryl ___, British novelist and playwright whose novels include The Dressmaker and Injury Time |
| WILLIAMSON | Henry ___, British novelist who is best known for Tarka The Otter (10) |
| IRIS | _ Murdoch (Irish-British novelist) (4) |
| ENID | British novelist Ms. Bagnold |
| ALEC | British novelist Waugh |
| REID | British novelist Forrest ___ |
| JEANRHYS | British novelist whose Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) was a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847) (4,4) |
| COE | Surname shared by a British novelist and a British middle distance runner |