| WILSON | Sir Angus -; author of novels including Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and The Old Men at the Zoo (6) |
| ASIF | - - By Magic ; novel by Angus Wilson, author of Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and The Old Men at the Zoo (2,2) |
| ETHOS | Characteristic attitudes, the ones European promoted |
| BENNETT | Arnold -, author of the "Five Towns" novels set in the Staffordshire Potteries including Clayhanger and The Old Wives' Tale (7) |
| HEMINGWAY | Author of For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea who said: "Happiness in intelligent pe |
| COLUMBIAN | ____ exchange, the transfer of culture, technology etc between the New World and the Old World (9) |
| DON | & 21A US author of stage plays The Dark Hours and The Old Soak (3,7) |
| EMIGRE | Turns up, from the start, Eliot and Frost got hold of graphic introduction produced by political exile (6) |
| DONMARQUIS | US author of stage plays The Dark Hours and The Old Soak |
| FLEABAG | The case of the circus performers and the old slattern (7) |
| MARQUIS | US author of stage plays The Dark Hours and The Old Soak (7) |
| BOOKTOKENS | Order sent at sea includes something acceptable in exchange for Moby Dick and The Old Man and the Se |
| SPACEK | Sissy _, US actress whose films include The Help and The Old Man & The Gun (6) |
| LARKIN | English poet whose works include Deceptions and The Old Fools, in his collections The Less Deceived and High Windows respectively (6) |
| ANGLO | --Saxon Attitudes; novel by Angus Wilson adapted into a miniseries (5) |
| BLACKDEATH | Lacked bath causing the middle age disease (5,5) |
| DANTE | Regularly drains the middle-age poet (5) |
| TRIPLETS | Some born together: Eliot, Eliot and Eliot? |
| GREENTEA | Mistake genre with introductions from Tennyson, Eliot and one of those consumed in China (5,3) |
| LEHRER | Tom, US humorist whose songs include The Masochism Tango and The Old Dope Peddler (6) |
