| MAEVE | and 7dn, Irish novelist whose works include Circle of Friends and Light a Penny Candle |
| BINCHY | see 25dn, Irish novelist whose works include Circle of Friends and Light a Penny Candle |
| MAEVEBINCHY | Irish author whose novels include Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends |
| GROUP | A band of musicians/singers, a circle of friends, a class of peers, a cluster of galaxies, a family of chemical elements or a gathering of people (5) |
| MOORE | George -; Irish novelist whose works include A Mummer's Wife, Esther Waters and the memoir Confessions of a Young Man (5) |
| BOWEN | Elizabeth ---, Anglo-Irish novelist whose works include The Heat Of The Day (5) |
| JOYCE | Irish novelist whose works include Finnegans Wake and Dubliners (5) |
| OLIVER | _ Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish novelist whose works included The Vicar Of Wakefield (6) |
| GEORGEMOORE | Irish novelist whose works include Esther Waters (6,5) |
| OFLAHERTY | Liam, Irish novelist whose volumes of short stories include Two Lovely Beasts (9) |
| RODDYDOYLE | Irish novelist whose books include The Commitments and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (5,5) |
| SONETLUMIERE | From the French meaning "sound and light", a show staged after dark against the facade of a historic building or ruin (3,2,7) |
| CRONYISM | The appointment of friends and associates to posts of authority without regard to merit (8) |
| BANVILLE | John ___, Irish novelist whose novel The Sea won the Man Booker Prize in 2005 |
| EDNA | O'Brien, Irish novelist whose first novel The Country Girls was published in 1960 (5) |
| ALADDINER | Film about a street urchin and his circle of friends in Baltimore? |
| MINNIE | ___ Driver, star of TV series Speechless and film Circle of Friends (6) |
| LES | TV executive Moonves who oversaw the creation of "Friends" and "ER" |
| ANISTON | Jennifer of Friends and The Morning Show |
| LEBLANC | Matt ___, star of Friends and Episodes (7) |
