| AGATHACHRISTIE | A good Irish attache suspect in one of her books? (6,8) |
| JOYCEWORDS | What Carol Oates used in her books? |
| INSTEAD | Detains suspect in one's place (7) |
| DANIELLE | She had at least one of her books in the New York Times bestseller list for over 390 consecutive wee |
| FANCYFRIDA | Mexican painter in one of her brightly colored self-portraits? |
| SOMME | Thus madame is seen in one of her rivers? |
| MARTHA | Forename of a pioneering war correspondent whose former husband, Ernest Hemingway, is the "other" referred to in the title of her book Travels with Myself and Another (6) |
| MEAD | US social anthropologist, Margaret - the scientific soundness of her book Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) |
| FEATHERBRAINED | Silly female put away her book and showered (7-7) |
| CRACKOFTHEWHIP | See 26, VIP's attache and junior women worked together (1,4,2,7,4) |
| ASTHECASEMAYBE | Perhaps test leading attache according to circumstances (2,3,4,3,2) |
| SCHOOLREPORT | English is good, Irish is very good, and French is poor? Overall, it's a masterpiece! (6,6) |
| ORIGINS | Beginnings or roots in good Irish National schools (7) |
| AMANDAOWEN | Real name of the Yorkshire Shepherdess born in 1974 noted for her books and TV work (6,4) |
| GRIGRI | Good Irish king seeing double with voodoo charms (3-3) |
| FERGUS | Endless palaver about the Queen and good Irish saint |
| GEORGEBERNARDSHAW | Begorrah! Reads new novel by good Irish author |
| AYNRAND | Russian-born US writer whose philosophy, 'objectivism', was popularised in her books The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) (3,4) |
| DAPHNEDUMAURIER | A movie based on her book won the Best Picture Oscar in 1940 |
| OLDERMAN | Madonna posed with one in her book "Sex" |
