| DUMAURIER | Author of novels inspired by Cornwall including The Loving Spirit, Jamaica Inn, Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek and My Cousin Rachel (2,7) |
| GRAHAM | Author of the Poldark novels set in Cornwall including The Black Moon, The Four Swans, The Miller's Dance and The Loving Cup (6) |
| DAPHNE | Author of Jamaica Inn, Rebecca and The Birds. (6,2,7) |
| QUOITS | Rings for encircling hobs or pegs in a game of the same name; or, megalithic cromlechs or dolmens such as any of those in Cornwall including the "giant's house" (6) |
| DEVON | County of England bordered by Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset (5) |
| EROSION | A loving spirit in enfolding love is wearing |
| FALSEHOOD | Home Counties criminal seen by Cornwall river? That’s not true |
| WOOLF | Virginia -; author of works including A Room of One's Own and the novel inspired by Vita Sackville-West titled Orlando (5) |
| EASTOFEDEN | John Steinbeck novel inspired by the biblical story of Cain and Abel: 3 wds |
| EARRING | Novel inspired by the paintings of Vermeer, Girl With A Pearl ... |
| BELOVED | 1988 Pulitzer-winning novel inspired by the life of Margaret Garner |
| BRAVEST | "The ___ are the most tender; the loving are the daring": Bayard Taylor (7) |
| CIRCE | Madeline Miller novel inspired by "The Odyssey" and other Greek myths |
| DJINN | "A Master of ___": P. Djeli Clark novel inspired by Islamic mythology |
| EDWARD | King whose assassination at Corfe Castle is associated with the tradition or ceremony of the loving cup (6) |
| THEFAULTINOURSTARS | John Green novel inspired by a line in Julius Caesar |
| ORLANDO | Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel inspired by Vita Sackville-West (7) |
| CRANFORD | Elizabeth Gaskell's novel inspired by her girlhood village, Knutsford (8) |
| DEMONCOPPERHEAD | Pulitzer-winning Barbara Kingsolver novel inspired by a Charles Dickens work |
| THEBITCH | Salacious Jackie Collins novel. .. inspired by her type-cast sister - actor, Joan? (3,5) |
