| GEORGEWILL | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball" |
| 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) |
| LURIE | Alison -; Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The War Between the Tates and Foreign Affairs (5) |
| 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) |
| MORRISON | Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Sula (8) |
| ANNIEPROULX | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Shipping News" and "Brokeback Mountain" |
| ANNIE | Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Shipping News, E ... Proulx |
| ALICEWALKER | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple (5,6) |
| UPDIKE | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of four 'Rabbit' novels, d. 2009 (6) |
| ISHIGURO | Kazuo -; Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun (8) |
| HAY | Colin of Men at Work |
| EMILIO | Estevez of "Men at Work" |
| LARUSSA | Manager subject of "Men at Work" |
| WOUK | Herman ___, Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose novels include The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War and War and Remembrance |
| LESSING | Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grass Is Singing, The Golden Notebook and the Canopus in Argos series (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) |
| NYE | Simon _, the writer of Men Behaving Badly and The Durrells (3) |
| EDNA | Pulitzer Prize-winning author ___ Ferber (anagram of dean) |
| INCREASE | At work, the result of folding up (8) |
| ORATORIO | Noted work of men at old Brazilian port? |
