| LEHMANN | Bloomsbury novelist whose books include Dusty Answer, Invitation to the Waltz and The Echoing Grove (7) |
| DANCING | The waltz and foxtrot are two popular forms of this pastime |
| DARKNESS | I rhyme / To see myself, to set the ... echoing (Seamus Heaney) |
| REPERCUSSIVE | Having consequences concerning the echoing of drums? (12) |
| MOYES | Novelist whose books include The Peacock Emporium, The Horse Dancer, Me Before You and The One Plus One (5) |
| TONIMORRISON | This novelist, whose books include "The Bluest Eye" and "Beloved," won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature (2 wds.) |
| FAULKS | Sebastian -; journalist-turned novelist whose books include Birdsong, On Green Dolphin and Where My Heart Used to Beat (6) |
| RODDYDOYLE | Irish novelist whose books include The Commitments and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (5,5) |
| ALISTAIRMACLEAN | Scottish novelist whose books include The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare (8,7) |
| MCEWAN | Ian ___, British novelist whose books include Enduring Love and Atonement (3,6) |
| IAN | Ian ___, British novelist whose books include Enduring Love and Atonement (3,6) |
| FORSYTH | Novelist whose books, including The Day of the Jackal, The Fourth Protocol and The Odessa File, have been adapted into films (7) |
| LEONURIS | American novelist whose books include Exodus and Trinity |
| TROLLOPE | Joanna ___, English novelist whose books include The Rector's Wife |
| BROWN | Artist who painted The Last of England and Work ; or, a poet and novelist whose books including Greenvoe and Magnus reflect his homeland Orkney (5) |
| THOMASHARRIS | Suspense novelist whose book was the basis for the movie "The Silence of the Lambs": 2 wds. |
| WELSH | Irvine _, Scottish novelist whose books include Trainspotting (1993) |
| ADELE | --- Parks, contemporary English novelist whose books include Husbands, Love Lies and Spare Brides (5 |
| FRANCIS | Jockey turned crime novelist whose books include Dead Cert and Nerve (7) |
| COLLINS | A friend of Charles Dickens considered by some to be the first detective novelist whose books includ |
