| WALPOLE | 18th-century English writer and Whig politician, owner of Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham (7) |
| HORACE | 18th-century English writer and Whig politician, owner of Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham (6) |
| SHERIDAN | Richard Brinsley -; Irish satirist, playwright and Whig politician who wrote The Rivals and The School for Scandal (8) |
| MARTINEAU | Harriet ---, 19th Century British social theorist and Whig writer (9) |
| JOHNSON | Samuel ?, 18th-century English writer and lexicographer buried at Westminster Abbey, London (7) |
| GIBBONS | Creator of the Carved Room at Petworth House and of a lime-wood cravat so realistic that its former owner Sir Horace Walpole wore it to greet visitors at Strawberry Hill (7) |
| HAZLITT | William, early 19th-century English writer, an esteemed critic and essayist (7) |
| JACKSON | Shirley ---, American author of the 1959 novel The Haunting Of Hill House (7) |
| ESTATES | Settings for "The Haunting of Hill House" and "The Haunting of Bly Manor" |
| STUNNER | Peach stone and all but the tip of strawberry shoot (7) |
| CHARLES | Whig politician who was the first British Foreign Secretary (7,5,3) |
| HEARTEN | Cheer try with number of characters in Twickenham (7) |
| CABBAGE | The - - - Patch, famous rugby pub in Twickenham (7) |
| CHAUCER | 14th century English author (7) |
| SAMUELJOHNSON | 18th Century English writer and lexicographer who is buried at Westminster Abbey (6,7) |
| THHNTNG | 1999 horror film set at Hill House |
| HORACEWALPOLE | Art historian and politician who built Strawberry Hill and wrote the novel The Castle Of Otranto (6,7) |
| POPE | Poet, Kit-Cat, Scriblerian, master of the heroic couplet and celebrator of the goddess Dulness in The Dunciad, whose villa in Twickenham, as seen in a painting by Turner, was demolished, leaving only |
| PUTTINGFORWARD | Suggestion of green activity depressing one in eight in Twickenham maybe ... (7,7) |
| LEAR | Edward - - -, 19th Century English writer and artist known for his nonsense literature (4) |
