| GOGOL | Nikolai ___, Russian author whose best-known works are The Government Inspector and Dead Souls |
| RUTHPARK | New Zealand?born Australian author whose best-known works are the novels The Harp in the South and Playing Beatie Bow |
| JEAN | French author whose best-known works are the 1929 novel Les Enfants terribles and the 1934 play La Machine infernale (4,7) |
| COCTEAU | French author whose best-known works are the 1929 novel Les Enfants terribles and the 1934 play La Machine infernale (4,7) |
| TOKAREVA | Viktoriya ___, Russian author whose works include Horses with Wings (1996) (8) |
| NABOKOV | Vladimir ___, Russian author whose works include Lolita (7) |
| TURGENEV | Ivan ___, Russian writer whose works include A Month in the Country (8) |
| FRIML | Rudolf ___, Prague-born composer whose best-known works are Rose-Marie and The Vagabond King |
| BATES | H.E. ---, 20th Century English author whose best-known works include The Darling Buds Of May (5) |
| BALLARD | JG _, novelist whose best-known works are Crash (1973) |
| WOOLF | Born Adeline Virginia Stephen in 1882, the novelist whose best-known works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves and the extended essay A Room of One's Own (5) |
| RIMSKYKORSAKOV | Nikolai ___, Russian composer whose works include the orchestral suite Scheherazade and the opera Le Coq d'or |
| MANET | Surname of the French painter whose best-known works include Absinthe Drinker and Bar at the Folies-Bergere (5) |
| PUSHKIN | Russian author whose works include the novels Eugene Onegin and The Captains Daughter, drama Boris Godunov, and poem Ruslan and Ludmila (7) |
| NIKOLAIGOGOL | Russian writer known for the satirical play The Government Inspector (1836) |
| STUBBS | Painter of sporting/racing events, horses and wild, exotic animals whose best-known works include Whistlejacket and Mares and Foals in a Landscape (6) |
| ROWLANDSON | Comic artist and caricaturist whose best-known works feature in the Tours of Dr Syntax series of boo |
| JONG | Author whose best-known work begins "There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them" |
| HELENFIELDING | Author whose best-known character first appeared in an anonymous column in The Independent in 1995 |
| DEEPING | Warwick ___, prolific English novelist and short story writer whose best-known novel was Sorrell and Son |
