| ELLISBELL | Author comes to bemoan preface written in Spain with lines repeated |
| ASPEN | Mid-season, writer comes to ski resort |
| SHOWBIZ | Comic who is touring beginning to bemoan variable entertainment industry (7) |
| BLACKBALL | Start to bemoan the shortage of a dance on the West Coast (9) |
| BROUGHT | Bore first to bemoan difficult time |
| BIGBEN | Writer comes over to tour Britain, beginning in Edinburgh with iconic landmark |
| PENSIONSCHEME | Author comes in ? he's altered retirement plan (7,6) |
| ASIMOV | Sci-fi author comes in as I move out (6) |
| MEDELLIN | Author comes by computer in cocaine hub (8) |
| REFRAIN | Desist, or lines repeated in a song (7) |
| TRIOLET | Eight-line poem with some lines repeated (7) |
| MARIONETTE | Friend overlooks river in Spain with piece of angling equipment - the type that comes with strings attached (10) |
| EXACERBATE | Inflame in Spain with new bar in spot on point (10) |
| EATOUT | Dine in bistro, say, in Spain with a solicitor (3,3) |
| GREETER | Regret awkwardly taking in Spain with one employed in the hospitality industry (7) |
| ESSAYIST | Writer comes back from southeast to say what comes first (8) |
| SEMICOLON | Mark of a writer comes in novel, nothing left to hide (9) |
| NEPTUNE | Writer comes back with melody ___ it's in "The Planets" (7) |
| ORTHODOX | Established writer comes in to land, do we hear? |
| ANTHEMFORDOOMEDYOUTH | Wartime lines repeated do haunt memory of the wounded (6,3,6,5) |
