| AAAMILNE | Children's author and roadside helper? |
| ATAXIA | Problem with moving vehicle - get roadside helpers around (6) |
| CORNCOCKLE | Grain, bivalve mollusc, and roadside plant |
| WILLOWHERB | A tall perennial flower also called fireweed found in woodland and roadside verges (10) |
| CLEMATIS | Preferring its "head in the sun and feet in the shade", a climbing plant also aptly named traveller's joy for its prevalence along hedgerows, pathways and roadsides (8) |
| WILSON | Children's author and creator of characters including Hetty Feather and Tracy Beaker (6) |
| BARKLEM | Pen name of the children's author and illustrator Gillian Gaze, who wrote the seasonal autumn, spring, summer and winter stories based on the miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge (7) |
| GAY | Canadian children's author and illustrator |
| BEATRIXPOTTER | Children's author and illustrator (7,6) |
| SCARRY | Richard ___, popular American children's author and illustrator who published over 300 books, such as the Best Word Book Ever |
| SPOT | Fictional puppy created by English children's author and illustrator Eric Hill; first appeared in print in 1980 (4) |
| MAURICESENDAK | US children's author and illustrator best known for 1963's Where the Wild Things Are (7,6) |
| JUDITH | Children's author and illustrator who created the feline character Mog, _ Kerr (6) |
| ERIC | ____ Hill, children's author and illustrator who created the puppy Spot (4) |
| POYNTER | McFly bassist, children's author and fashion model, Dougie _ (7) |
| POTTER | Children's writer and illustrator, one successful at table (6) |
| ALLSTON | US artist who painted The Poor Author and the Rich Bookseller, Florimell's Flight and Hermia and Helena (7) |
| RUDYARD | And 9 English author and poet born in India, best known for The Jungle Book and his Just So Stories (7,7) |
| READES | "The Cloister and the Hearth" author and family |
| BRIGGS | Raymond ___, author and illustrator whose books include When the Wind Blows and The Snowman (6) |
