| ASTALL | "Jane, Jane, ___ as a crane": Sitwell |
| HOIST | Height of a sail; a lifting device such as a crane, halyard, pulley or teagle; or, a set of signal flags (5) |
| OSBERT | A forename of the author of A Place of One's Own who is depicted in a painting by John Singer Sargent with his parents and his siblings Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell (6) |
| FACADE | An Entertainment ___, a series of poems by Edith Sitwell recited over a musical accompaniment by William Walton |
| EDITH | A Sitwell |
| LAMBERT | Founder Music Director of the Royal Ballet who was a reciter in the Sitwell-Walton Facade collaboration (7) |
| EDITHS | Poet Sitwell and singer Piaf |
| RAIN | "Still Falls the __": Edith Sitwell poem |
| MEREDITH | Novelist just overlapping with Sitwell |
| ANGLER | Eg Walton's fury about Sitwell, ultimately |
| STANLEYBALDWIN | ... novel by Sitwell and an ex-PM (7,7) |
| EDIT | Check Sitwell after leaving hospital |
| BELSHAZZARSFEAST | Cantata by Sir William Walton with libretto by Osbert Sitwell, based on biblical sources (11,5) |
| STILLWATERS | Ones that run deep, for the star of the Sitwell generation (5,6) |
| GANTRY | Area behind a bar where bottles are mounted in optics; a stand for barrels; or, a structure supporting a crane, railway signal or road sign (6) |
| DADDYLONGLEGS | In the United Kingdom it's a crane fly but in Australia it's a house spider (and in the US it was a |
| BIRDSEYEVIEW | What a crane may get, and what one may get from a crane? (5-3,4) |
| BROLGA | He's such a log in a bar - takes a crane to get him out of it (6) |
| HOISTUP | Raise, as with a crane |
| MARSH | Where to see a crane constructing a home |
