CLOCK WORD

The solutions from 1 to 12 are all six-letter words ending with the letter D in the centre. Moving clockwise from 1, the letters in the outer circle will spell out the name of a British novelist.

1. Fooled 2. Go up 3. Thin cord 4. Stretch out 5. Add 6. Folded 7. Struck with the foot 8. Congenital 9. Biblical hunter 10. Base 11. Exotic bloom 12. Water nymph