| 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) |
| TASSEL | A flower of maize; or, an ornamental tuft on a fez or on a fringe of a chaise (6) |
| 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) |
| LESSING | Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grass Is Singing, The Golden Notebook and the Canopus in Argos series (7) |
| TORMENTOR | Guru behind the eye of the storm and the thorn in one's side? (9) |
| 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) |
| NYALA | Southern African antelope, Tragelaphus angasi, having a fringe of white hairs along the length of it |
| LULL | The eye of the storm e.g. |
| UNDSET | Nobel Prize-winning author of Kristin Lavransdatter who fled the Nazis (6) |
| KIPLING | Nobel Prize-winning author who wrote The Jungle Book, Stalky and Co, Puck of Pook's Hill and Just So |
| JOHNSTEINBECK | February 27, 2002 was the centennial of this Nobel Prize-winning author's birth |
| LURIE | Alison -; Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The War Between the Tates and Foreign Affairs (5) |
| STORMCENTER | Eye of the storm |
| EYEOFTHEHURRICANE | Eye of the storm |
| WAROFTHEELEMENTS | Eye of the storm |
| BOARDER | A sailor who storms a ship in an attack; one who skates or surfs on a deck/plank; a lodger; or, a residential pupil, as opposed to a day-boy/girl (7) |
| BANG | A fringe of hair, cut straight across the forehead (4) |
