| SHUTE | Pen name of the novelist who wrote A Town Like Alice and On the Beach (5) |
| NEVILSHUTE | British novelist who wrote A Town Like Alice (5,5) |
| OUIDA | Pen name of the novelist who wrote A Dog of Flanders (5) |
| ELIOT | Pen name of the novelist who wrote The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch (5) |
| TWAIN | Pen name of the novelist who wrote about the adventures of characters Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer (5) |
| EMILY | First name of the novelist who wrote under the name of Ellis Bell (5) |
| NGAIO | New Zealand "mousehole" tree; or, the first name of the novelist who wrote the Inspector Alleyn mysteries (5) |
| EDITH | First name of the novelist who wrote about siblings Peter, Phyllis and Roberta in The Railway Children (5) |
| READE | Surname of the novelist who wrote The Cloister and the Hearth (5) |
| DEFOE | Surname of the novelist who wrote 'Moll Flanders' (5) |
| ELENA | ____ Ferrante, pen name of the novelist noted for her Neapolitan Novels (5) |
| SHARP | Alan ___ (1934 - 2013) Alyth-born novelist who wrote A Green Tree in Gedde (1966) (5) |
| NEVIL | ___ Shute, "A Town Like Alice" novelist |
| WOOD | Mrs Henry -; pen name of the novelist who wrote Danesbury House, East Lynne and The Channings (4) |
| RENAULT | Pen name of the novelist who wrote the Alexander Trilogy comprising Fire from Heaven, Persian Boy an |
| RHYS | Pen name of the novelist who wrote Wide Sargasso Sea as a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (4) |
| SCOTT | Middle name of the novelist C S Forester |
| FORSTER | Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years, the novelist who wrote A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India (7) |
| SPRINGS | The title of Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice refers to the Australian town of Alice ... |
| PEACOCK | The male of the national bird of India; the butterfly Aglais io; or, the novelist who wrote Headlong Hall, Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle (7) |
