| SCIFI | Science fiction, in short (3,2) |
| ALIEN | Stranger fiction in outskirts of Ardrossan (5) |
| UPTON | -- Sinclair, writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943 (5) |
| FARFROMTHETRUTH | The top-shelf fiction in relation to bottom shelf non-fiction, for instance, couldn't be further from the facts (3,4,3,5) |
| LOVECRAFT | H. P. --, American writer of weird, science, fantasy h and horror fiction in the early 20th Century (9) |
| MYSTERIES | Crime fiction in which priests classically played leading role |
| EARLIEST | First hint of romantic fiction in orient (8) |
| OILIER | Slicker fiction in Republic of Ireland rewritten (6) |
| ALIENATE | Turn off fiction in a neat plot (8) |
| TELLFIBS | Produce bits of fiction in form from made-up stories (4,4) |
| INFECTIOUS | Use fiction in a way that's easily picked up (10) |
| SHORTSTORY | Work of fiction in which politician keeps trousers on (5,5) |
| FACT | No fiction in the start of the first act (4) |
| RICHARDPOWERS | American novelist whose novel The Overstory won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019: 2 wds. |
| UGLIER | Great fiction in Russia reflects what amounts to more revolting (6) |
| EPIC | See a long work of fiction in the picture house (4) |
| COLSON | Whitehead whose novel "The Nickel Boys" won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in May, 2020 |
| BELOVED | Novel by Toni Morrison that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 |
| WILIER | More cunning from women associated with fiction in Iran (6) |
| PRIXRINGUET | Quebec literary award for a work of fiction in French |
