| BEWICK | Artist, wood engraver and author of A History of British Birds after whom a species of tundra swan was named (6) |
| WHITE | Color of snowy egrets and tundra swans |
| BEAGLE | British bird after dog (6) |
| DIONYSIUS | ---------of Halicarnassus, Greek historian and rhetorician, the author of a history of Rome (9) |
| GREENAWAY | Illustrator of "toy books", including Marigold Garden, Mother Goose and Under the Window, who was the daughter of an engraver and a milliner, and a friend of John Ruskin (9) |
| SWAN | A waterfowl with a species named after an engraver and naturalist who created the Chillingham Bull woodcut; or, a literary word for a bard/poet (4) |
| THOMASBEWICK | A swan and a wren were named after this wood engraver |
| BERRY | A soft fruit such as the red variety traditionally used to make an accompaniment for turkey; or, a former GBBO judge and author of a number of cookery volumes including Christmas Collection (5) |
| GROUSE | Red -; Galliform of heather moorland used as the emblem of a brand of whisky and the journal British Birds (6) |
| ASHWELL | Interior designer, entrepreneur and author of a number of books including Shabby Chic and My Floral Affair (7) |
| LIVY | Writer of a history of ancient Rome (4) |
| SCHAMA | Simon , writer and presenter of A History of Britain (6) |
| DORE | Once employer of some 40 wood engravers, a French artist whose lavish illustrations grace editions of the Bible, Don Quixote, Inferno and other literary classics (4) |
| DURHAM | Author of a history making 1837 report |
| HOGARTH | English engraver and painter whose works include A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-laMode (7,7) |
| WILLIAM | English engraver and painter whose works include A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-laMode (7,7) |
| BLAKE | Painter, engraver and poet whose illustrated collection is called Songs of Innocence and of Experience (5) |
| BELLO | Maria of "A History of Violence" |
| OLIVER | Presenter of 'A History of Scotland', Neil - (6) |
| NOSTRADAMUS | 16th-century astrologer and author of a book of prophecies (11) |
