Guardian Prize

[suziecreamcheese]

Brilliant puzzle by Brendan today.
One holding out ...

10a Romantic novelist, the writer embraced by a couple, contrarily (5)

O?I?A or O?I?? if 8d isn't PAUL

[elliemay1]

Ouida

[Toorak]

Ouida

[JJ109]

Owita

[Mamyalynne]

'I' the writer in an anagram of 'a duo'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouida

[dannyk13]

Ouida - i(the writer) inside duo(couple) reversed

[Toorak]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouida

[suziecreamcheese]

Thanks guys! New to me writer. DUO - why could I not think of that? Apologies for the delay in replying - I must have failed to tick the email option - your answers took some finding today, unusually, and I began to wonder, where/how is Lie-in-King.

[Mamyalynne]

He's around.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1765131.html