| LEONORA | -------Weisz (nee Carrington), painter and writer who lived in Mexico City (7) |
| AZTEC | Like to hear detective who lived in Mexico |
| STEIN | Gertrude ---, American modernist writer who lived in Paris (5) |
| AZTECS | Members of a people with an advanced civilization who lived in Mexico even before the conquest of Cortes |
| WYNDHAMLEWIS | English painter and author who was a cofounder of the Vorticist movement in art (7,5) |
| NARRATIVE | This story was created by a leading author who lived in Arne -- and it has a very spectacular ending! (9) |
| RANSOME | Arthur ___, author who lived at Hill Top near Haverthwaite in Cumbria (7) |
| WYNDHAM | Percy ___ Lewis, Vorticist painter and writer (7) |
| TROTSKY | Key figure in the 1917 Russian revolution, murdered in Mexico City in 1940 (7) |
| STRACEY | British boxer who beat Jose Napoles in Mexico City in 1975 to win the WBC welterweight title (4,1,7) |
| KENNEDY | Comedian and writer who won Celebrity Masterchef in 2012 (4,7) |
| TIERNAN | Tommy ___, Irish comedian, actor and writer who appeared in Father Ted as Father Kevin |
| DURRELL | Gerald, British naturalist and writer who founded the zoo on the island of Jersey (7) |
| SOLOMON | TV personality and writer who recently married Joe Swash (6,7) |
| SANDERS | Lou ___, stand-up comedian and writer who won the eighth series of Taskmaster (7) |
| TINAFEY | American actress, comedian and writer who won an Emmyfor playing Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live |
| WOOLF | Bloomsbury Group author who lived at Monk's House in Sussex where she wrote Mrs Dalloway and other novels in a writing lodge at the bottom of the garden (5) |
| IRVINGBERLIN | White Christmas and Easter Parade song writer who lived to age 101: 2 wds. |
| SAPPHO | Early Greek writer who lived on the isle of Lesbos (6) |
| ARABIC | A painter and writer from the Middle East? (6) |
