| OSCARWILDE | Irish author and playwright who only wrote one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (5,5) |
| COAUTHOR | One of the bookmakers only wrote part of it (2-6) |
| UNDERTHEGREENWOODTREE | Enter drudge - he wrote one novel, a Victorian story |
| BENNETT | Actor, author and playwright who wrote the screenplay to the film based on his life The Lady in the Van (7) |
| BEHAN | Surname of the Irish author and playwright whose works include The Quare Fellow and Borstal Boy (5) |
| BARKER | Clive, English author and playwright who created the character Candyman (6) |
| OSCAR | - Wilde, Irish author and playwright (5) |
| GALSWORTHY | John _, English novelist and playwright who wrote The Forsyte Saga and its sequels (10) |
| EECUMMINGS | American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright whose books include Eimi and ViVa |
| WILDE | Oscar -; author of the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (5) |
| SWIFT | Anglo-Irish author and clergyman who wrote about Lilliput, Brobdingnag and the Land of the Houyhnhnms in his satire Gulliver's Travels (5) |
| GRAY | Wilde novel, The Picture Of Dorian ... |
| DORIAN | 1890 Oscar Wilde novel, The Picture Of _ Gray (6) |
| DUHAMEL | Josh ?, actor who played the title role in 2005 film drama The Picture of Dorian Gray (7) |
| MILNE | Surname of the writer famous for The Picture of Dorian Gray, etc. (5) |
| SPIKEMILLIGAN | Comedian, writer and playwright, 1918-2002, who was a member of The Goons (5,8) |
| JONATHANSWIFT | Anglo-Irish author and clergyman noted for his novel Gulliver's Travels published in 1726 (8,5) |
| BECKETT | Samuel _, Irish author and Nobel laureate (1969) noted for the 1953 play En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) (7) |
| TSELIOT | Poet and playwright who produced The Waste Land and Murder in the Cathedral (1,1,5) |
| MAUVE | "Never trust a woman who wears ___" (line from "The Picture of Dorian Gray") |
