| BRILLIANT | My - Career, Miles Franklin novel (9) |
| MYBRILLIANTCAREER | Miles Franklin novel (2,9,6) |
| MERCENARY | My career revolves around money, essentially (9) |
| UNDERWOOD | Carrie who tweeted on Friday: "Rest in peace, Tony...It was truly a great honor of my career and of my life to get to share the stage with you" |
| EMBRACERY | As leader of bar, my career developed in criminal practice |
| CAREER | Author Miles Franklin banned her semi-autobiographical novel, My Brilliant ..., from being re-issued |
| EUCALYPTUS | Evergreen tree of Murray Bail's Miles Franklin Award winning novel |
| SOFIELAGUNA | Whose novel, The Eye of the Sheep (2014), about a poor family struggling to cope with a difficult child, won the 2015-Miles Franklin Award? (5,6) |
| WINNIEDUNN | A Tongan-Australian writer, whose debut novel, Dirt Poor Islanders (2024) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award? (6,4) |
| BLISS | Novel by Peter Carey that won the Miles Franklin award in 1981 |
| SIANGLU | Who won the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel Ghost Cities? (5,2) |
| MAE | West who said "Men are my life, diamonds are my career" |
| OSCARAND | Peter Carey's ... Lucinda won the Booker Prize and Miles Franklin Award (5,3) |
| TRACEYEMIN | As an artist I reenact my career (6,4) |
| CREAMERY | Sell products with clots here? It's ruined my career! |
| SCORCH | School is the setting for my career |
| EERIE | During my career I experienced something weird |
| IHAVENOTYETBEGUNTOFIT | 'My career as a tailor will start soon'? |
| LEXICOGRAPHER | My career is meaningful by definition |
| AWARDSCEREMONY | Down, as my career ruined the Oscars, perhaps (6,8) |
