| BYATT | A S ___, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden (5) |
| ASBYATT | Author of the novels The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life (1,1,5) |
| LEWIS | C.S. ___ author of The Chronicles of Narnia who served in the British army during WWI |
| ELIOT | T.S, __, author of The Waste Land (5) |
| DEGAS | Impressionist painter who specialised in studies of dancers, cafe life and the racecourse (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) |
| HOURI | Time I became a virgin in Paradise (5) |
| AUTRY | L.A.'s ___ Museum of the American West |
| NEILL | A S ___, Scottish progressive educator and author who founded Summerhill school |
| BETA | The virgin in the Chad/Virgin meme, e.g. |
| ENNIS | L.A.'s __ House, 1924 Frank Lloyd Wright design |
| GETTY | L.A.'s ___ Museum |
| WATTS | L.A.'s ___ Towers |
| CHADS | Guys juxtaposed with virgins, in an internet meme |
| DAVINCI | Leonardo, Italian painter and sculptor whose works include Virgin of the Rocks and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne (2,5) |
| HUDSON | Author and ornithologist who wrote The Naturalist in la Plata, Afoot in England, A Shepherd's Life and the novel Green Mansions (6) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| AVESTA | A virgin in the scriptures (mostly in the scriptures) (6) |
