| ISHIGURO | Nobel Prize-winning author knighted in February this year, his novels include An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go (8) |
| CAPOTE | Truman _, US celebrity writer. His novels include In Cold Blood (6) |
| RAMAPHOSA | Cyril ---, politician who took office as the President of South Africa in February this year (9) |
| SIRIAINLIVINGSTONE | Who announced their retirement as Chief Constable of Police Scotland in February this year (3,4,11) |
| MILLER | Identify this southpaw from South Africa who is playing for LSG this year - his fourth team in IPL (6) |
| OSCAR | Who won the Hungarian Formula 1 GP this year - his maiden win? (5) |
| PIASTRI | Who won the Hungarian Formula 1 GP this year - his maiden win? (7) |
| FRUMP | Back on the first of February this woman was classed as dowdy (5) |
| WHITE | Patrick -; Nobel Prize-winning author of novels including The Eye of the Storm, A Fringe of Leaves, Happy Valley and The Tree of Man (5) |
| NAIPAUL | Nobel Prize-winning author noted for his comic portrayal of his birth country, Trinidad, in novels i |
| LESSING | Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grass Is Singing, The Golden Notebook and the Canopus in Argos series (7) |
| MUNRO | Nobel Prize-winning author of Lives of Girls and Women and The Moons of Jupiter; or, a Scottish mountain such as Ben Nevis or Lochnagar (5) |
| HARDY | Dorset's celebrated literary figure who used the names Shaston or Palladour to describe the Saxon hilltop town Shaftesbury in the fictional Wessex of his novels Jude the Obscure and Tess of the D'Urbe |
| JOHNSTEINBECK | February 27, 2002 was the centennial of this Nobel Prize-winning author's birth |
| KAZUOISHIGURO | "The Remains of the Day" author, knighted in 2018: 2 wds. |
| GALSWORTHY | John -; Nobel Prize-winning author whose The Forsyte Saga was adapted into a television series in 1967 and again in 2002 (10) |
| KIPLING | Nobel Prize-winning author who wrote The Jungle Book, Stalky and Co, Puck of Pook's Hill and Just So |
| COUPLES | Golfer who was world No.1 in 1992, winning the US Masters the same year, his only major title (7) |
| ONO | Masuji ___ (protagonist of Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World) |
| UNDSET | Nobel Prize-winning author of Kristin Lavransdatter who fled the Nazis (6) |
