| GOLDING | Nobel Prize-winning English novelist who wrote Lord of the Flies and the To the Ends of the Earth trilogy (7) |
| ASBYATT | Booker Prize-winning English novelist whose sisters are the novelist Margaret Drabble and the art historian Helen Langdon (1,1,5) |
| RINGS | Tolkein wrote "Lord Of The ___" (5) |
| WILLIAM | And 9 Across Nobel Prize-winning English author of novels including Lord of the Flies (1954) |
| JOSEPH | Conrad who wrote "Lord Jim" |
| HGWELLS | English novelist who wrote some of the earliest science fiction novels, such as The War of the Worlds. (1,1,5) |
| WILLIAMSON | English novelist who wrote about the countryside in his A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series, Tarka the Otter, Life in a Devon Village and many more (10) |
| READE | Charles, English novelist who wrote The Cloister and the Hearth (5) |
| CSFORESTER | English novelist who wrote the Horatio Hornblower series and The African Queen |
| HORNUNG | English novelist who wrote of the gentleman burglar Raffles (7) |
| SEBASTIANFAULKS | English novelist who wrote the historical novels Birdsong and Charlotte Gray (9,6) |
| HURT | Award-winning English stage and screen actor who starred in the films Alien, Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Elephant Man (4) |
| HARTLEY | L. P. -; English novelist who wrote The Go-Between (7) |
| NESBIT | E. -; English novelist who wrote The Railway Children (6) |
| JOHNGALSWORTHY | English novelist who wrote The Forsyte Saga (4,10) |
| SHELLEY | Mary, English novelist who wrote the 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein (7) |
| ORWELL | Name the English novelist who wrote '1984', George... (6) |
| EMFORSTER | English novelist who wrote A Passage To India (1,1,7) |
| HILARYMANTEL | English novelist who won the Booker Prize in 2009 and 2012 for her novels about Thomas Cromwell (6,6) |
| MSDYNAMITE | Mercury Prize-winning English rapper born Niomi Arleen McLean-Daley in 1981 (2,8) |
