| THEA | Australian novelist Astley |
| KYLIE | Australian novelist ___ Tennant |
| MORRISWEST | Popular Australian novelist |
| TIM | - Winton, Australian novelist (3) |
| INSTEAD | Rather stylish Australian novelist (7) |
| RUSSELLBRADDON | Which Australian novelist was a Japanese prisoner of war who spent time on the Burma-Thailand railwa |
| CAREY | Peter _; Australian novelist and Booker Prize winner (5) |
| TIMWINTON | Australian novelist acclaimed for works such as Cloud Street and Breath (3,6) |
| HERBERT | Australian novelist best known for Poor Fellow My Country published in 1975, Xavier ... |
| WHITE | Patrick, Australian novelist who won the 1973 Nobel prize for literature (5) |
| PETER | Australian novelist who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang (5,5) |
| MCCULLOUGH | Colleen, Australian novelist noted for The Thorn Birds (10) |
| PHITE | Name a renowned Australian novelist, etc, Patrick ... (5) |
| PETERCAREY | Australian novelist who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang (5,5) |
| COETZEE | J. M. ___, South African-born Australian novelist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003 (7) |
| NIGELKRAUTH | Which Australian novelist and academic wrote the political thriller Freedom Highway (1999) (5,6) |
| KENEALLY | Thomas ___, Australian novelist who wrote Schindler's Ark (8) |
| NEVER | "___ Gonna Give You Up" (Rick Astley song) |
| NEED | Rick Astley "Whenever You ___ Somebody" |
| HELP | Rick Astley "Cry for ___" |