| JOHNGALSWORTHY | Nobel laureate who wrote The Forsyte Saga |
| PINTER | Nobel laureate who wrote the play The Birthday Party |
| VSNAIPAUL | Nobel laureate who wrote "The Enigma of Arrival" |
| ANGELL | Sir Norman -; Nobel laureate who wrote The Great Illusion (6) |
| TONIMORRISON | US Nobel laureate who wrote the novels Sula and Jazz |
| MANN | Nobel laureate who wrote Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice and Doctor Faustus (4) |
| HEANEY | Seamus -; Nobel laureate who wrote poetry collections including Wintering Out, Field Work, The Haw Lantern and Human Chain (6) |
| HESSE | Hermann ---, Nobel laureate who wrote Steppenwolf |
| ALBERTCAMUS | Nobel laureate who wrote L’Étranger and La Peste |
| NERUDA | Pablo -; Chilean Nobel Laureate who wrote Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (6) |
| ISHIGURO | Name, meaning "black stone", of a Nobel laureate who wrote metaphorically about a floating world and also a day's remains (8) |
| GALSWORTHY | John ---, English novelist and playwright who wrote The Forsyte Saga (10) |
| NAHUM | First name of the Poet Laureate who wrote The History of King Lear (5) |
| NAHUMTATE | Poet laureate who wrote the words of the Christmas carol While shepherds watched their flocks (5.4) |
| BRIDGES | Robert ___, Poet Laureate who wrote The Testament of Beauty (7) |
| ADALIMON | Poet laureate who wrote The Hurting Kind |
| MICHAELMORPURGO | Former Children's Laureate who wrote the 1982 novel War Horse (7,8) |
| CECIL | British Poet Laureate who wrote mystery novels under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, ... Day-Lewis |
| JOHNMASEFIELD | Poet Laureate who wrote Salt-Water Ballads (4,9) |
| RAMSAY | Nobel laureate who discovered the noble gases including one with the help of Lord Rayleigh (6) |
