| OFARRELL | Northern Irish author whose novels include After You'd Gone, The Hand That First Held Mine and Hamnet (6.8) |
| MAGGIE | Northern Irish author whose novels include After You'd Gone, The Hand That First Held Mine and Hamnet (6,8) |
| ANNABURNS | Northern Irish author who won the 2018 Booker Prize with her novel Milkman (4,5) |
| CONANDOYLE | Study a Northern Irish writer ___ or an old one (5,5) |
| NINEPINS | Northern Irish writer backs trendy southern game (8) |
| OBRIEN | Irish author whose novels include The Country Girls, August Is a Wicked Month and The Light of Evening (1'5) |
| BINCHY | Irish author whose novels include Circle of Friends, Evening Class, Minding Frankie and A Week in Winter (6) |
| EDGEWORTH | Anglo-Irish author whose novels include Letters for Literary Ladies, Castle Rackrent and Tales of Fashionable Life (9) |
| MAEVEBINCHY | Irish author whose novels include Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends |
| CECELIAAHERN | Irish author whose novels include PS, I Love You and Where Rainbows End (7,5) |
| DOYLE | Roddy - - -, Irish author whose novels include The Commitments (5) |
| EDNAOBRIEN | Irish author whose novels include The Country Girls (4,6) |
| OFLAHERTY | Liam, Irish author whose novels include 1925's The Informer (9) |
| EDNA | ___ O'Brien, Irish writer whose novels include The Country Girls (4) |
| IMRIE | Celia _, actress whose TV credits include After You've Gone and dinnerladies (5) |
| JOYCE | James -; Irish author whose works include Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (5) |
| KAYE | Actor whose TV credits include After Life and The Stranger, Paul ___ (4) |
| DANNIEABSE | Welsh poet whose poetry collections include After Every Green Thing and Running Late |
| GARR | Teri _, actress whose films include After Hours and Ghost World (4) |
| BEHAN | Irish writer whose works include the play 'The Quare Fellow' (5) |
