English novelist (5)
'english novelist' is the definition.
(novelist Evelyn Waugh)
This is the entire 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'" .)
(Other definitions for thomas hardy that I've seen before include ""The Mayor of Casterbridge" author" , "Writer who died in 1928" , "Author of Under the Greenwood Tree" , "Poet" .)