| FUGARD | South African dramatist who wrote the plays Blood Knot and The Road to Mecca and the novel Tsotsi (6 |
| COLIN | ___ Firth, 14A's co-star in Devil's Knot and The Importance Of Being Earnest (5) |
| ATHOL | Mr. Fugard, author of 1980 novel Tsotsi |
| BANDIT | Exclude odd, 'dainty' tsotsi (6) |
| LORCA | Spanish poet, dramatist and artist who wrote the play Blood Wedding in 1933, Federico Garcia ... |
| SYLVIAPLATH | US-born poetess who wrote the two volumes of verse The Colossus and Ariel, and the novel The Bell Jar (6,5) |
| ODETS | Clifford -; dramatist who wrote the plays Waiting for Lefty, Golden Boy and Rocket to the Moon (5) |
| SARTRE | Jean-Paul -; existentialist philosopher and novelist who wrote Nausea and The Roads to Freedom series including The Age of Reason (6) |
| AGATHA | Forename of the "Queen of Crime" who wrote the story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and the novel Hercule Poirot's Christmas (6) |
| PLATH | Sylvia -; author who wrote The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel and the novel The Bell Jar (5) |
| HUDSON | Author and ornithologist who wrote The Naturalist in la Plata, Afoot in England, A Shepherd's Life and the novel Green Mansions (6) |
| SAUDIARABIA | Kingdom sometimes called 'The Land of The Two Holy Mosques' in reference to Mecca and Medina, the two holiest places in Islam (5,6) |
| REA | British rock and blues star whose hits include Auberge, On The Beach and The Road to Hell (5,3) |
| CHRIS | British rock and blues star whose hits include Auberge, On The Beach and The Road to Hell (5,3) |
| ROBERTGRAVES | British writer whose works included the memoir Good-bye To All That and the novel I, Claudius (6,6) |
| SHER | Actor of stage and screen who wrote the plays I.D. and Primo (4) |
| ORTON | Joe , who wrote the plays Loot and What the Butler Saw (5) |
| ATHOLFUGARD | South African author of the play The Blood Knot (5,6) |
| ONDAATJE | Michael -; author of the poetry collection The Cinnamon Peeler and the novel The English Patient (8) |
| TREADS | The patterns incised in the rubber surfaces of wheels to improve traction by expelling water between them and the road |
