| PRIESTLEY | English novelist holy, by the sound of it? |
| BLESSED | Consecrated; made holy by relgious ceremony (7) |
| JERUSALEM | *City deemed holy by three religions |
| ALONE | "I'm not lonely, I'm ___ / And I'm holy by my own" (Jamila Woods) |
| REEVE | Clara ___, English novelist of the Gothic school who authored The Champion Of Virtue aka The Old English Baron (5) |
| GOLDING | Nobel Prize-winning English novelist who wrote Lord of the Flies and the To the Ends of the Earth trilogy (7) |
| HGWELLS | English novelist who wrote some of the earliest science fiction novels, such as The War of the Worlds. (1,1,5) |
| GREENE | 20th-century English novelist whose works include Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Potting Shed, Travels with My Aunt and the short story Went the Day Well? (6) |
| FORSYTH | Frederick ___, English novelist of political thrillers including The Day of the Jackal (1971) |
| READE | English novelist, author of 'The Cloister and the Hearth' (5) |
| AMBLER | English novelist, writer of the Mask of Dimitrios (1939) |
| WAR | English novelist, it's said - and the sort of press correspondent he once was? (3) |
| PARADESEND | First World War tetralogy by English novelist Ford Madox Ford chronicling the life of Christopher Ti |
| COE | Jonathan, English novelist whose works include 'The House of Sleep and The Rotters' Club (3) |
| WILLIAMSON | English novelist who wrote about the countryside in his A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series, Tarka the Otter, Life in a Devon Village and many more (10) |
| ORWELL | English novelist George ___ (pen name) whose novella Animal Farm is considered one of the best ones written in the 20th century |
| NEVILSHUTE | English novelist, author of 'On the Beach' (5,5) |
| EMAILER | English novelist, man of letters for the modern age? |
| HORNUNG | English novelist who wrote of the gentleman burglar Raffles (7) |
| ANTHONYHOPE | English novelist best known for The Prisoner of Zenda (7,4) |
