| BARTH | John -, author of the novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy (5) |
| KEBLE | John, author of The Christian Year, an 1827 volume of sacred verse (5) |
| JOHNBARTH | An American novelist, author of "The Floating Opera" and "Giles Goat-Boy" |
| ARDEN | John, author of the 1958 play Live like Pigs (5) |
| RINGO | John, author of the 2000 novel A Hymn Before Battle (5) |
| KEATS | John, author of the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn (5) |
| OHARA | John, author of the 1934 novel Appointment in Samarra (1'4) |
| CASE | John -, author of the novels The First Horseman and The Genesis Code; pseudonym of Jim and Carolyn Hougan (4) |
| SIMON | Creator of the 'X Factor' and 'Got Talent' TV franchises (5,6) |
| STORE | Shop the sot is staggering to again (5) |
| ETHOS | He finds the sot has moral significance (5) |
| BURNS | Gordon ?, Northern Ireland-born presenter whose credits include ITV series The Krypton Factor and Surprise, Surprise (5) |
| CREASEY | John, author of the novels The Toff at Butlin's and Go Away Death (7) |
| LAHR | John -, author of the novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot (4) |
| WYNDHAM | John, author of the novel The Day of the Triffids (7) |
| GILES | "___ Goat-Boy" (John Barth allegory) |
| RILES | John Barth's " ___ Goat-Boy" |
| LECARRE | John, author of the novels Call for the Dead and The Mission Song (2,5) |
| IRVING | John, author of the novel The Hotel New Hampshire (6) |
| BUCHAN | John, author of the novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (6) |
