| BRIGGS | Author of illustrated books including When the Wind Blows and Ethel & Ernest (6) |
| WARNE | Founder of a company, now an imprint, that has published Beatrix Potter's illustrated books including The Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Tailor of Gloucester for some 120 years (5) |
| SHEPARD | Illustrator of books including When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six and The House at Pooh Corner (7) |
| DUOS | Lucy and Ethel and Thelma and Louise |
| ISAACWATTS | Congregational minister who wrote hymns including When I Survey the Wondrous Cross and Joy to the World |
| MEGRYAN | Star of a string of 1980s/90s romantic comedies including When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle (3,4) |
| POTTER | Author of a series of illustrated books published by Frederick Wame & Co. who bequeathed 15 farms and some 4,000 acres to the National Trust (6) |
| CRADLE | It rocks when the wind blows |
| BROWNE | Hablot Knight -; artist known as Phiz who illustrated books by Charles Dickens (6) |
| ERNEST | Ethel And - (Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn) (6) |
| KARATE | Japanese martial art using blows and kicks (6) |
| GERARD | Botanist noted for his illustrated book Herball, first published in 1597 (6) |
| THAYER | "On Golden Pond" (1981) couple, Ethel and Norman ___ |
| KUNGFU | Oriental martial art using blows and kicks |
| THEMAN | Novel by Bram Stoker; or, an Illustrated book for children by Raymond Briggs (3,3) |
| SETONS | Authors Anya and Ernest |
| FLORA | Roman goddess of spring; the first name of the heroine in Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons; or, a type of illustrated book on plant life (5) |
| MUNNINGS | Equestrian/sporting artist who painted HRH The Prince of Wales on Forest Witch, Winter Landscape, When the wind blows cold and December Morning, Cornwall (8) |
| ASHCROFT | Actress in A Passage to India who was the voice of Hilda in When the Wind Blows (8) |
| TOAD | Frog and -; series of illustrated books by Arnold Lobel (4) |
