| SHRED | A bit of her novel is set within Scotland's borders (5) |
| SPIED | Saw cottage, for example, within Scotland's borders (5) |
| TABITHA | Only a bit of her can go into the hat! (7) |
| MORTISELOCK | Security device which is set within the body of a door (7,4) |
| EMERGENCY | ___ department, location that Casualty is set within Holby City Hospital (9) |
| ONLEAVE | This leading author's novel is set in the West of England -- it was written whilst he was away having a break (2,5) |
| FORTHETIMEBEING | Bit of her meeting disturbed temporarily (3,3,4,5) |
| ESSAYIST | Author's novel is set to film, for example (8) |
| EMCEE | Host leaving odd bits of her mackerel |
| COOPER | Author of How to Survive Christmas who lost the only copy of the manuscript of her novel Riders on a London bus in 1970 (6) |
| EMMA | Title heroine described in the first lines of her novel as "handsome, clever and rich" |
| READERS | Book lovers erased last part of her novel (7) |
| KANGAROO | Which of DH Lawrence's novels is set in Australia? (8) |
| INSET | Small map or diagram set within the borders of a larger one (5) |
| STOWE | - House; ducal palace set within 750 acres of parkland in Buckinghamshire that was saved from demolition in 1922 and since used as a school (5) |
| LOUPE | Magnifying lens set within an eyepiece, used by horologists, gemologists and jewellers (5) |
| SEDUM | Plant grows at last, set within rising mud (5) |
| TYLER | Author of The Accidental Tourist who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her novel Breathing Lessons (5) |
| RHINE | In her novel, there's a valley (5) |
| PLATH | "I shut my eyes and all drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again." This American poet is perhaps best known for her novel The Bell Jar. |
