| LLOYD | Prize-winning NZ author (5,5) |
| JONES | Prize-winning NZ author (5,5) |
| NGAIOMARSH | NZ writer known as one of the "Queens of Crime", Dame ... (5,5) |
| MATAFEO | Award-winning NZ comedian, Rose ... (7) |
| MARLON | Award-winning NZ singer-songwriter, ... Williams (6) |
| JANE | Oscar-winning NZ filmmaker (4,7) |
| CAMPION | Oscar-winning NZ filmmaker (4,7) |
| WAITITI | Taika ___, award-winning NZ film director (7) |
| NGAIO | - Marsh, NZ author |
| FRAME | NZ author, Janet ... (5) |
| MAHY | A UK prime minister rings hot NZ author (4) |
| HOHAIA | 2008 Rugby League World Cup-winning NZ fullback, Lance ... (6) |
| AHREED | NZ author, 1875-1975, who when in his 80s climbed Mt Taranaki, Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe, and walked from North Cape to Bluff (1,1,4) |
| CKSTEAD | Famed NZ writer (1,1,5) |
| MANSFIELD | Chap's expertise as 3 NZ writer (9) |
| ELIEWIESEL | Peace Prize-winning author |
| ALICEADAMS | Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel by author Booth Tarkington (5,5) |
| PETERCAREY | Australian author of novels including the Booker Prize-winning Oscar and Lucinda (1988) (5,5) |
| YANNMARTEL | Author of Life Of Pi, the 2002 Booker Prize winning novel (4,6) |
| GALSWORTHY | John -; Nobel Prize-winning author whose The Forsyte Saga was adapted into a television series in 1967 and again in 2002 (10) |
