| SIGHTLINES | 2012 collection of essays by poet and nature writer Kathleen Jamie that was a Radio 4 Book of the Week |
| DOROTHYWORDSWORTH | Canadian author Kathleen Winter's novel Undersong is about Romantic Era writer ___ ___ (b.1771 - d.1855) ...the younger sister of the famous 'Lake District' English poet with the first name of William |
| USA | Part of the "We Are the World" group |
| ELMO | One of the "We Are All Monsters" singers |
| DEEJAY | Davy Jones initially was a radio employee (6) |
| MAKAR | Scottish literary post held by Kathleen Jamie (5) |
| VITA | Familiar name of Knole-born novelist and nature writer, Lady Nicolson, whose former garden featuring a nuttery or nutwalk of Kentish cobs is described in her pastoral poem titled Sissinghurst (4) |
| SHEPHERD | Hillwalker and nature writer "Nan" whose manuscript The Living Mountain about her journeys into the Cairngorms sat in a drawer for some 30 years before being published (8) |
| STEMPEL | John Lewis-___, farmer and nature writer (7) |
| ARISTOS | The ___; 1964 collection of essays by The Magus and The French Lieutenants Woman author John Fowles (7) |
| SKETCH | The ? of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, collection of essays by Washington Irving first published in 1819 (6,4) |
| BOOK | The - of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, collection of essays by Washington Irving first published in 1819 (6,4) |
| MORONIC | The ___ Inferno, collection of essays by the late writer Martin Amis, published in 1986 (7) |
| ODES | English title of a four-book poetry collection by the Roman poet Horace (4) |
| MABEY | Nature writer and broadcaster and whose book titles include Food for Free, The Unofficial Countryside, Flora Britannica and Turned Out Nice Again (5) |
| SWEETANDSOUR | 1954 collection of essays by John O"Hara (5,3,4) |
| THESECOND | And 19 2008 collection of essays by Martin Amis (3,6,5) |
| DEFENDANT | The _: collection of essays by English author G.K. Chesterton (9) |
| MEYNELL | Which poet wrote the collection of essays The Colour of Life (1896) |
| SKETCHBOOK | The - - of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent; collection of essays and stories by Washington Irving (10) |
