| THACKERAY | Author whose works include the novel Vanity Fair and collection of satires titled The Book of Snobs (9) |
| FELLOWES | Author of Snobs who wrote the screenplay for the film Gosford Park and created Downton Abbey (8) |
| DOBBIN | William, character in the novel Vanity Fair (6) |
| BECKYSHARP | Central character in the novel Vanity Fair (5,5) |
| NOBS | Anagram of "Snob" |
| BOSN | Deck officer, for short (Anagram of SNOB - hopefully they aren't one!) |
| SARTRE | Existentialist philosopher and author whose works include the novel Nausea and collection of stories The Wall (6) |
| ISRAEL | and 5dn, British humorist and writer whose works include the novel Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People and the play The Melting Pot |
| BURNEJONES | Artist who is seen as the last of the Pre-Raphaelites; his works include Love and the Pilgrim and collection of watercolours in The Flower Book (5-5) |
| ZANGWILL | see 6dn, British humorist and writer whose works include the novel Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People and the play The Melting Pot |
| BUTLER | Samuel -; author whose works include the novel Erewhon and the semi-autobiographical work The Way of All Flesh (6) |
| LARKIN | Philip -; author whose works include the novel Jill and poetry collection The Whitsun Weddings (6) |
| SETH | Vikram -; author of the novel in verse The Golden Gate and collection of fables Beastly Tales (4) |
| PUSHKIN | Russian author whose works include the novels Eugene Onegin and The Captains Daughter, drama Boris Godunov, and poem Ruslan and Ludmila (7) |
| KOESTLER | Arthur ___, Hungarian-born writer whose works include the novel Darkness at Noon and The Ghost in the Machine |
| GEORGEMEREDITH | English writer whose works include the novel The Egoist and the poem Modern Love |
| BENNETT | Arnold ---, English writer whose works include the novel Anna Of The Five Towns (7) |
| PATER | Walter ___, English essayist and critic whose works include the novel Marius the Epicurean |
| JAMESBALDWIN | American author and civil rights campaigner whose works include the novel If Beale Street Could Talk |
| SHARP | Surname of the character Becky in Old Carthusian W M Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair, whose career progresses from articled pupil at Miss Pinkerton's academy to amoral adventuress and unashamed social c |
