| OKRI | Nigerian author awarded a Booker Prize for The Famished Road (4) |
| BROOKNER | Anita -; novelist and art historian awarded a Booker Prize for her Hotel du Lac (8) |
| MANN | Thomas -; German author awarded a Nobel Prize for his novel Buddenbrooks (4) |
| THIGHSOFRELIEF | Turkey servings for the famished? |
| LEE | Harper -; author awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1961 for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (3) |
| ALICEMUNRO | Canadian short story writer awarded a Nobel Prize in 2013 |
| PAUL | Irish author awarded the 2023 Booker Prize for the dystopian novel Prophet Song (4) |
| DUST | 1975 novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; a Booker Prize winner (4,3,4) |
| OKRA | Ben, author of the novel The Famished Road (4) |
| IRIS | _ Murdoch, novelist who won the Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea in 1978 (4) |
| ROTH | Writer awarded an Oscar for his Forrest Gump screenplay who also co-wrote the scripts for The Horse Whisperer and 2018 film A Star is Born (4) |
| ALAN | Hollinghurst who won the 2004 Booker Prize for "The Line of Beauty" |
| BENOKRI | Nigerian writer who won the 1991 Booker Prize with The Famished Road (3,4) |
| BUCK | Pearl S. ---, American writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 (4) |
| BEN | Nigerian author of the Booker-winning novel, The Famished Road; ... Okri |
| SHUGGIEBAIN | He is a big gun for a change - a Booker Prize winner! (7,4) |
| LYNCH | Irish author awarded the 2023 Booker Prize for the dystopian novel Prophet Song (5) |
| MARGARET | & 18D Which Canadian author wrote The Handmaid's Tale and its followup The Testaments, a Booker Prize winner? (8,6) |
| ATWOOD | Which Canadian author wrote The Handmaid's Tale and its followup The Testaments, a Booker Prize winner? (8,6) |
| HEATAND | 1975 novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; a Booker Prize winner (4,3,4) |
