| LESSING | Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grass Is Singing, The Golden Notebook and the Canopus in Argos series (7) |
| MISHEAR | Think that Dylan is singing "The ants are my friend..." (7) |
| RAGS | Most of the grass is cut, kids (4) |
| DORIS | British-Zimbabwean novelist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007; The Grass Is Singing (1950), The Golden Notebook (1962) etc. (5,7) |
| 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) |
| ISHIGURO | Kazuo -; Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun (8) |
| NAIPAUL | Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author of A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State and The Enigma of Arrival (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) |
| DORISLESSING | British author of "The Golden Notebook" who won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature: 2 wds. |
| AUDEN | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Letters from Iceland, For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio and of the poems published posthumously in the collection Thank You, Fog (5) |
| MORRISON | Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Sula (8) |
| KIPLING | Nobel Prize-winning author who wrote The Jungle Book, Stalky and Co, Puck of Pook's Hill and Just So |
| GALSWORTHY | John -; Nobel Prize-winning author whose The Forsyte Saga was adapted into a television series in 1967 and again in 2002 (10) |
| LURIE | Alison -; Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The War Between the Tates and Foreign Affairs (5) |
| HERMANN | Nobel prize winning author of Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, ... Hesse |
| UNDSET | Nobel Prize-winning author of Kristin Lavransdatter who fled the Nazis (6) |
| SPRY | Florist who wrote 13 books including Garden Notebook and designed the flowers for the Queen's wedding and coronation (4) |
| JOHNSTEINBECK | February 27, 2002 was the centennial of this Nobel Prize-winning author's birth |
| COETZEE | Nobel Prize-winning author of "Disgrace" |
| CARINA | Once a part of Argo Navis with Puppis and Vela, the Keel constellation containing the supergiant Canopus (6) |
