Nigerian poet and novelist who won the 1991 Booker Prize with The Famished Road (3,4) Crossword Clue

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RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% BENOKRI Nigerian poet and novelist who won the 1991 Booker Prize with The Famished Road (3,4) (7)
5% BOOK Winner of a Booker prize, fittingly (4) New York Times Mini Jan 16, 2026
4% SARA Poet Teasdale who won a Pulitzer for her volume "Love Songs" (4) New York Times Jan 6, 2026
4% NAIRA Nigerian currency (5) TV Jan 4, 2026
4% ADE ____ Akinbiyi, Nigerian footballer (3) The Telegraph Cross Atlantic Jan 2, 2026
4% STOKER Novelist Bram who created Dracula (6) LA Times Daily Dec 30, 2025
4% OKRI Ben -, author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia (4) (4) Mirror Quiz Dec 24, 2025
4% OLGA Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature (4) New York Times Dec 23, 2025
4% CLOUD & 3D 2004 novel by David Mitchell shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize (5,5) (5) Mirror Quiz Dec 16, 2025
4% EYES "___ on the prize" (4) USA Today Dec 14, 2025
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