| HULME | Keri -, author of 1984 novel The Bone People, the 1985 Booker Prize winner |
| MARYWESLEY | Writer of the 1984 novel The Camomile Lawn (4,6) |
| KERIHULME | New Zealand author whose novel The Bone People won the 1985 Booker Prize (4,5) |
| KERI | Author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People (4.5) |
| MOERAKI | Coastal township 75km north of Dunedin where Keri Hulme lived while writing the Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People (7) |
| BONEPEOPLE | 'The ---', novel by Keri Hulme which won the 1985 Booker Prize (4,6) |
| ACKER | Kathy ___, author of 1984 novel Blood and Guts in High School (5) |
| BROOKNER | Anita, author of 1984 novel Hotel du Lac (8) |
| DEAVER | Jeffrey, author of the 1997 novel The Bone Collector (6) |
| MAORI | New Zealander in Keri Hulme's "The Bone People" |
| ORWELL | Pen name of Eric Blair, author of 1984 (6,6) |
| GEORGE | Pen name of Eric Blair, author of 1984 (6,6) |
| HOOD | English poet, humorist and journalist who wrote Odes and Addresses to Great People, The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies and The Song of the Shirt (4) |
| EMFORSTER | Edwardian novelist who said he was only able to write about "three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be" |
| EBAN | "My People: The Story of the Jews" author Abba |
| OCHRE | The _ People, the 1963 memoir of journalist Noni Jabavu (5) |
| CAJUN | One of the 9 people the Bill lifted getting thirty days |
| SAHARA | With parts inhabited by the Tuareg people, the largest hot desert in the world (6) |
| SOMEOF | "You can fool all of the people - - the time..." |
| GEORGEORWELL | Top writer of 1984? (6,6) |
