| FLAUBERT | Possibly be artful as a novelist |
| STERNE | As a novelist, rename Ernest as Laurence |
| AUTHORIAL | A harlot, I suspect, stealing Waugh's heart as a novelist? (9) |
| CASTLE | TV series starring Nathan Fillion as a novelist-turned-sleuth |
| SHELLEY | As a novelist, she had to call back (7) |
| CALIFORNICATION | Stars David Duchovny as a novelist suffering from writer's block |
| LINEAR | As a Just A Minute speech may be: artful, in earshot, making a case (6) |
| POLITIC | Pictorial pastiche artist erased, to be artful |
| SLY | Even Ashley can be artful (3) |
| IAN | Forename of a novelist whose subjects include a bridge cheat, a diamond smuggler, a secret agent, a trapeze artist-turned-aviatrix and an eccentric inventor of a magical flying car called Chitty-Chitt |
| DISRAELI | Statesman who abandoned being a solicitor to become a novelist before serving twice as a UK prime minister (8) |
| ORATOR | Word for a person who paints lettering for signs; a novelist or journalist; a professional clerk or scribe; or, a composer of music (6) |
| WRITER | Word for a person who paints lettering for signs; a novelist or journalist; a professional clerk or scribe; or, a composer of music |
| JAMES | Depicted in a portrait by John Singer Sargent, a novelist awarded the Order of Merit in 1916 who wrote The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove (5) |
| PAPERBACKWRITER | In his just published book, "The Lyrics," Paul McCartney offers details about 154 of his songs; early on he wanted to be a novelist, and for this hit imagined penning "a letter to the publishing compa |
| SEVENKEYSTOBALDPATE | Oft-filmed play about a novelist at a lonely inn |
| TRAVERSAL | Crossing a line, a novelist left (9) |
| READE | Peruse a letter from a novelist (5) |
| LOVEINAMIST | "I'm a novelist," (trying to be), flower! (4,2,1,4) |
| CITYLIGHTS | BBC Scotland sitcom about a bank-teller with dreams of becoming a novelist (1984-91) (4,6) |
