| LOTHARIO | 'Haughty, gallant' libertine in the 1702 play The Fair Penitent by English writer Nicholas Rowe (8) |
| GAYLOTHARIO | "...haughty gallant, ___?": N. Rowe |
| RAKE | A libertine in the garden? (4) |
| TWINRIVALS | "The ... ...", 1702 stage play by George Farquhar (4,6) |
| ROWE | "Lady Jane Grey" writer Nicholas |
| PILEGGI | "Wiseguy" writer Nicholas |
| LUCKYJIM | Novel by English writer Kingsley Amis first published in 1954 (5,3) |
| CANDYMAN | Horror film franchise based on a short story by English writer Clive Barker (8) |
| SPARERIB | Feminist magazine begun in 1972 and launched by Rosie Boycott and Marsha Rowe (5,3) |
| DESCRIBE | Outline of first dictionary by English writer (8) |
| NONSENSE | Form of humorous or whimsical verse lacking coherent meaning, as pioneered by English writer Edward Lear (1812-88) |
| CASEWORK | Heard Drumm covered Rowe over work in social services (8) |
| INFAMOUS | Series of video games featuring Cole MacGrath, Delsin Rowe, and Abigail Walker |
| NICHOLASROWE | English author of plays including Tamerlane (1702) and The Fair Penitent (1703); Poet Laureate 1715-18 (8,4) |
| GREY | Lady Jane -; depicted in a play by Nicholas Rowe and a painting by Paul Delaroche, a queen for nine days before she was beheaded and replaced with Mary Tudor (4) |
| ICLAUDIUS | Novel by English writer Robert Graves dealing with the history of the Roman Empire from Julius Caesar's assassination in 44BC to Caligula's assassination in AD41 (1,8) |
| TRIUMPH | The other 'impostor' with Disaster in the poem If by English writer Rudyard Kipling (7) |
| BEAU | ____ Geste, adventure novel about brothers in the Foreign Legion by English writer P. C. Wren (4) |
| ELENI | 1985 title movie role for Canadian actress Kate Nelligan, based on the memoir by Greek author Nicholas Gage |
| BRAVENEWWORLD | 1931 novel by English writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley, whose title comes from a line in Shakespeare's The Tempest (5,3,5) |
