| HUTH | Angela -, author of novels Land Girls and Of Love and Slaughter |
| CARTER | Angela, author of the 1991 novel Wise Children (6) |
| BRAZIL | Angela, writer of 'modern schoolgirls' stories', born in Preston in 1868 (6) |
| SOIL | On which Lois laboured as a land girl? (4) |
| SGTS | Pepper and Slaughter: Abbr. |
| EDNA | and 10ac, Author of the novels The Country Girls and A Pagan Place (4,6) |
| ROSE | A flower symbolic of Aphrodite, beauty, England, love, pretty girls and the Tudors, among other things (4) |
| ABBY | ___ Quinn, star of films Radium Girls and Landline (4) |
| SKYE | Star of TV series Good Girls and La Brea, Ione ---- (4) |
| ROMANTIC | Trick of memory - and of love (8) |
| BLUR | Who had hits with Song 2 and Girls & Boys? (4) |
| MILO | Gilmore Girls and This Is Us star, ---- Ventimiglia (4) |
| BETH | Actress Behrs of 2 Broke Girls and The Neighborhood |
| YORK | Michael ___, actor whose TV credits include Gilmore Girls and Knots Landing (4) |
| HOMITYPIE | Wholemeal pastry tart with a potato, onion, leek and cheese filling, said to have been developed by the Land Girls during the Second World War (6,3) |
| NEWENGLAND | After novel, land in part of America (3,7) |
| MOWDOWN | Shave, drink and slaughter (3,4) |
| MACTARE | To sacrifice or reward but also to punish, kill, and slaughter |
| TRIP | It connects Road, Girls and Bountiful (4) |
| BOYS | Children, girls and ... (4) |