| ALANPATON | South African author of Cry, the Beloved Ccountry |
| PATON | South African author of Cry, the Beloved Country (4,5) |
| ALAN | South African author of Cry, the Beloved Country (4,5) |
| ATHOLFUGARD | South African author of the play The Blood Knot (5,6) |
| GORDIMER | Nadine ___, South African author of novels including The Conservationist (1974) and No Time Like the Present (2012); Nobel Prize in Literature (1991) (8) |
| COETZEE | J.M., South African author of 1983's The Life and Times of Michael K (7) |
| VANDERPOST | South African writer of travel memoirs and novels |
| DAMONGALGUT | South African author awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel The Promise (5,6) |
| WILBUR | South African author, ... Smith |
| PATONS | South African author Alan, et al. |
| ANDREBRINK | South African author who wrote A Dry White Season |
| NADINEGORDIMER | South African writer who won the Booker Prize in 1974 for "The Conservationist" |
| SOLPLAATJE | South African writer and politician; a founder member and first General Secretary of the SANNC (3,7) |
| JOCK | _ of the Bushveld, 1907 book by South African writer James Percy FitzPatrick (4) |
| NOTIME | ___ Like The Present, final novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer (2,4) |
| NADINE | South African writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, _ Gordimer (6) |
| ATHOL | South African writer Fugard |
| LAURENS | ___ van der Post, South African writer and conservationist born in 1906 (7) |
| BIKO | Steve of South Africa (and the subject of Cry Freedom) |
| PETE | For the love of ---, cry of vexation (4) |
