| BYATT | A S -, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden |
| ASBYATT | Author of the novels The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life (1,1,5) |
| STRONG | Former director of the V&A and also the National Portrait Gallery, author of books including The Artist and the Garden, A Country Life and The Elizabethan Image (6) |
| BETA | The virgin in the Chad/Virgin meme, e.g. |
| LEWIS | C.S. -; author of the novels chronicling the land of Narnia (5) |
| HUDSON | Author and ornithologist who wrote The Naturalist in la Plata, Afoot in England, A Shepherd's Life and the novel Green Mansions (6) |
| AVESTA | A virgin in the scriptures (mostly in the scriptures) (6) |
| NAIPAUL | V.S., author of the 1971 novel In a Free State (7) |
| CHARDIN | French master of still life and genre scenes such as The Buffet, Lady Sealing a Letter, Woman Taking Tea, Soap Bubbles and Basket of Wild Strawberries (7) |
| DAVINCI | Leonardo, Italian painter and sculptor whose works include Virgin of the Rocks and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne (2,5) |
| LITTLEIRONIES | Life's ___ 1894 collection of stories by Thomas Hardy which touches upon both rural life and the life of the bourgeois: 2 wds. |
| PRITCHETT | Author born above a toyshop who wrote the story collection You Make Your Own Life and the memoirs A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil (9) |
| COLLINS | Suzanne, U.S. author of the dystopian young adult novel series, The Hunger Games (7) |
| PISANELLO | Italian Renaissance painter whose works include The Vision of St Eustace and The Virgin and Child with Saints George and Anthony Abbot |
| ALBANI | Italian artist who painted Nativity of the Virgin in 1598 (6) |
| THOREAU | Henry David, U.S. author of the 1849 essay Civil Disobedience (7) |
| WELTANSCHAUUNG | In German philosophy and epistemology, a comprehensive view or personal philosophy of human life and the universe |
| MEGCABOT | U.S. author of The Princess Diaries (3,5) |
| MUNNINGS | Artist depicted in Summer in February noted for paintings of horses, sporting life and the English countryside such as My Wife, My Horse and Myself (8) |
| FORESTER | C S -, author of novels The Commodore and Lord Hornblower (8) |
