| ANDREWMARVELL | 17c English poet and satirist who wrote Last Instructions to a Painter (6,7) |
| MARVELL | Andrew, 17th-century poet and satirist who wrote Last Instructions To A Painter (7) |
| BALLARD | J.G., English author and satirist who wrote the wartime novel Empire of the Sun (7) |
| FAIRFAX | Thomas, 17c English general who commanded the Parliamentarian army 1645-50 (7) |
| TRAHERNE | Thomas, 17c English mystical prose writer whose works include Centuries of Meditations (8) |
| SAFIRE | Wordsmith who wrote "Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague" |
| ALEXANDERPOPE | English poet and satirist born in 1688 whose works include The Dunciad (9,4) |
| THEDAVINCIODE | Book that's a paean to a painter? |
| BIERCE | Ambrose ?, US poet and satirist who disappeared in Mexico in 1913 (6) |
| HORACE | Roman poet and satirist who authored the Ars Poetica (6) |
| POPE | English poet and satirist, d. 1744 (4) |
| BIRD | John, actor and satirist who had a screen partnership with John Fortune (4) |
| PROGRAM | A series of software instructions to a computer (7) |
| TIARA | It is up to a painter to provide jewellery (5) |
| SUMATRA | Is this island a must, in its own way, to a painter? (7) |
| OPERA | What Homer wrote last was nothing but a gem in translation (5) |
| LUCIAN | Ancient satirist who wrote "A True Story" |
| RABELAIS | French satirist who wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel (8) |
| SWIFT | Jonathan -; Irish satirist who wrote Gulliver's Travels (5) |
| WILLIE | British cartoonist and satirist who co-founded the magazine Private Eye, Rushton (6) |
