| BARTH | John, author of The Floating Opera (5) |
| JOHNBARTH | An American novelist, author of "The Floating Opera" and "Giles Goat-Boy" |
| ISHIGURO | Author of seven novels including An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go (8) |
| KEBLE | John, author of The Christian Year, an 1827 volume of sacred verse (5) |
| 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) |
| WOODBLOCKS | Items used to create "pictures of the floating world" in the Japanese art of ukiyo-e, such as those at the V&A (10) |
| UKIYOE | Meaning "pictures of the floating world", a style of Japanese painting or woodblock print (5-1) |
| ONO | Masuji ___ (protagonist of Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World) |
| ICEBERGALLEY | Newfoundland's coast, as it is dubbed, because of the floating-by-chunks from the Arctic: 2 wds. |
| UTAMARO | Retrospective, to some extent, for a mature artist of the floating world |
| WYNDHAM | John -; author of The Day of the Triffids, The Kraken Wakes and The Midwich Cuckoos (7) |
| LILYPAD | The floating leaf of an aquatic plant of the Nymphaea genus (4,3) |
| LECARRE | John, author of the novels Call for the Dead and The Mission Song (2,5) |
| CASE | John -, author of the novels The First Horseman and The Genesis Code; pseudonym of Jim and Carolyn Hougan (4) |
| CORK | Just the place for the floating population of Ireland? (4) |
| KABUKITHEATERS | Performance venues popular in the "floating world" of the Edo period |
| WEBSTER | John, author of the play The Duchess of Malfi (7) |
