English novelist (5)
I believe the answer is:
waugh
'english novelist' is the definition.
(novelist Evelyn Waugh)
This is all the clue.
(Other definitions for waugh that I've seen before include "'Vile Bodies' author" , "'Scoop' author" , "see 26 Across" , "Evelyn -, twentieth century English novelist" , "Evelyn ..... wrote 'Brideshead Revisited'" .)