| LUCKYJIM | Kingsley Amis novel from 1954 (5,3) |
| GREENMAN | The - -; Kingsley Amis novel (5,3) |
| IMAMATES | Muslim territories finding friend in Amis novel |
| RENECOTY | President of the French Republic from 1954-59 (4,4) |
| MOBYDICK | Novel from the pen of detective, written in ridicule |
| FOOTWEAR | Wrote of a novel from Wellington (8) |
| IRONWEED | Pulitzer winning novel from 1983 by William Kennedy (8) |
| LIFEOFPI | Yann Martel novel from 2001 (4,2,2) |
| SATURDAY | Ian McEwan novel from 2005 (8) |
| GMAN | 1969 Kingsley Amis novel, with "The" |
| LUCKY | ___ Jim, Kingsley Amis novel |
| DIMAGGIO | Joe ?, US baseball player married to Marilyn Monroe from 1954-55 (8) |
| VIETCONG | Communist-led Asian guerrilla force active from 1954 to 1976 (8) |
| ENTANGLE | Twist in English novel from the start and that's the catch (8) |
| MARGARET | Author of the novel from which TV's The Handmaid's Tale is adapted, _ Atwood (8) |
| ENGLISHMAN | Kingsley Amis novel whose central character is Roger Micheldene (3,3,10) |
| ONEFAT | Kingsley Amis novel whose central character is Roger Micheldene (3,3,10) |
| THEOLDDEVILS | Kingsley Amis novel which won the 1986 Booker Prize (3,3,6) |
| JIM | Lucky -; first of Kingsley Amis' novels to have been published (3) |
| TIMESA | 1991 Martin Amis novel |
