| STRINDBERG | Swedish dramatist and novelist noted for The Red Room and A Dream Play (10) |
| SASSOON | Siegfried, English poet and novelist noted for Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (7) |
| VIDAL | Gore, U.S. essayist and novelist noted for his Narratives Of Empire book series (5) |
| STRIMDBERG | Swedish playwright who also wrote the novel The Red Room (10) |
| MCCULLOUGH | Colleen, Australian novelist noted for The Thorn Birds (10) |
| AUGUSTSTRINDBERG | Swedish dramatist and novelist whose plays include Miss Julie and The Ghost Sonata (6,10) |
| ECO | Umberto, Italian novelist noted for The Name of the Rose (3) |
| BANVILLE | John, Irish novelist noted for The Sea (8) |
| NOMANSLAND | Harold Pinter depicted a world somewhere between reality and a dream in this 1975 play (2,3'1,4) |
| BRIDEGROOM | Wedding participant renovates big red room (10) |
| MONEYORDER | Japanese money locked in red room backed bill of exchange (5,5) |
| DEHOOCH | Dutch Golden Age painter noted for depictions of domestic life such as The Courtyard of a House in Delft, Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room and A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy (2,5) |
| SPA | A Korean one may have a jade room, a salt room, and a karaoke room |
| KING | Novelist noted for horror and supernatural fiction such as The Shining, It, Misery and The Green Mile (4) |
| PALMER | Leader of the Ancients whose paintings including A Cornfield by Moonlight with the Evening Star and A Dream in the Apennine were influenced by William Blake (6) |
| HEBATES | English novelist noted for works including Love for Lydia (1952) and The Darling Buds of May (1958) (1,1,5) |
| FOWLES | Metafictional novelist noted for his literary mind games set in Greece (The Magus) and in Lyme Regis (The French Lieutenant's Woman) (6) |
| BRAINE | John, English novelist noted for his book Room at the Top published in 1957 (6) |
| MOLNAR | Ferenc ___, Hungarian-born dramatist and novelist whose play Liliom was adapted into the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel |
| CLASS | A group of students at school who share a room and a teacher (5) |
