| DIGUPTHEDIRT | A farmer and a gossip columnist both ___ |
| YEOMAN | Farmer and a second turning up to invest in foreign currency (6) |
| SAGA | A story one way and a gossip the other (4) |
| FOURH | Club for aspiring farmers, and a hint to 17-, 23-, 47- and 58-Across |
| AFAR | A farmer and reaper initially at a distance (4) |
| NEWSMONGER | A gossip columnist, whether a journalist or an everyday busybody (10) |
| GOTHIC | American ____, 1930 painting by Grant Wood depicting a farmer and daughter (6) |
| CULTIVATES | Was a farmer and one tried to make friends with (10) |
| DIRTPOOR | Having financial trouble, like a gossip columnist? |
| BELOVEDINFIDEL | Movie with Deborah Kerr as a gossip columnist |
| RONADISCHARGE | Firing of a gossip columnist? |
| ITEM | Couple to a gossip columnist |
| NOSY | Like a gossip columnist, maybe |
| WILLOW | 1988 fantasy directed by Ron Howard starring Warwick Davis as a farmer and conjurer |
| MEADOWLAND | Described in a nature book by farmer-and-writer John Lewis-Stempel, a traditional hay or grazing field forming part of the British rural landscape (10) |
| RONAS | Gossip columnist Barrett and others |
| PEREZ | Celebrity blogger and gossip columnist, _ Hilton (5) |
| FLICKA | My Friend ---, Mary O'Hara novel about a Wyoming farmer and his horse (6) |
| AMOS | Meaning "burden", a shepherd, sycamore fig farmer and prophet of doom in the OT who envisaged the locusts devouring the crops (4) |
| JESTY | Benjamin ?, Dorset farmer and vaccination pioneer who died in 1816 (5) |
