| COOKSON | Author whose books such as The Cinder Path and Tilly Trotter trilogy have sold in their millions (7) |
| BICYCLE | Kind of vehicle that the brothers built and sold in their shop |
| ASH | Arbor in the genus Fraxinus whose twigs are traditionally bound to form a bundle burned on Christmas Eve in an ancient West Country custom; or, embers such as the cinders from which Cinderella derives |
| CATHERINE | _ Cookson, British novelist whose works include The Cinder Path (9) |
| DRIL | Influential Weird Twitter account that, after being verified without its permission by Elon Musk, tweeted, "Now that i have the baneful blue mark, I undertand the pain ive wrought. i was wrong to torm |
| TAXHAVEN | Island where a greedy executive might keep some of their millions |
| DRSEUSS | Pseudonymous author of children's books such as The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham (2,5) |
| EROTICA | Heather hides books such as Fifty Shades of Grey (7) |
| ANNUALS | Plants living for a year or less; or, books such as almanacs (7) |
| RECIPES | Methods of cooking found in a book such as Larousse GastronomiqueA (7) |
| KENNETHGRAHAME | Author of children's books such as The Wind In The Willows (7,7) |
| CUTAWAY | Hack out a path, and picture exposing the interior (7) |
| DISCERN | Make out that the cinders have been sifted (7) |
| RESCIND | Cancel the order to sift the cinders (7) |
| NOSEJOB | Soundly understands book, such as work on bridge |
| CLASSIC | Book such as "Little Women" |
| TWOTIME | Lead up the garden path and overturn shed full of fibres |
| ASTRAEA | A path and area reserved for Goddess |
| SCARRY | Richard ___, popular American children's author and illustrator who published over 300 books, such as the Best Word Book Ever |
| SCHEFFLER | Axel, German illustrator known for children's books such as The Gruffalo and its sequel (9) |
