| STEVENSON | Author still succeeded working after getting stone on head |
| STEY | Rising sharply in Highlands, still succeeded in ascent |
| THOREAU | French writer, still with regiment, put on a uniform |
| PIT | Lean backwards, getting stone (3) |
| QUARRYING | Getting stone from victim in front of gendarme (9) |
| STATIONERY | Of use to writers still, we hear |
| INKWELL | Pot much used by old writers still mentioned in advice to printers (7) |
| IMPRINT | Writer's still showing sign of depression? |
| SEEDY | Shabby, putting stone on your head (5) |
| JIM | Put stone on after fitness session, by the sound of it, for 80s 8Dn (3,7) |
| DIAMOND | Put stone on after fitness session, by the sound of it, for 80s 8Dn (3,7) |
| DAP | Skip, as a stone on water |
| CHIPPINGS | (Loose) bits of stone on road (9) |
| RICHMAN | Fifth stone on plate - Dives! (4,3) |
| JETLAG | Fatigue puts stone on prisoner (6) |
| COASTAL | Something black wrapped round a stone on the beach? |
| STRATAGEM | Plan to have stone on more than one level |
| FLABBERGAST | Strike dumb and fat composer putting a stone on |
| GARTERSTITCH | Rows of plain stone, on order, can hardly wait |
| STILLNESS | Lack of activity - unhealthy state - putting stone on (9) |
