| HINES | Barry ____ was an author, best known for A Kestrel for a Knave |
| BARRY | English author whose novel A Kestrel for a Knave was adapted for Ken Loach's film Kes (5,5) |
| LOACH | Ken -; director who adapted A Kestrel for a Knave to screen with the latter's author Barry Hines (5) |
| FALCONRY | Described in The Book of Hawking, Hunting and Heraldry, A Kestrel for a Knave and H is for Hawk, sport or practice of training or hunting with birds of prey (8) |
| STANYEL | Swallow almost over meadow looks up for a kestrel |
| WINDHOVER | Dialect word for a kestrel (9) |
| AKNAVE | A Kestrel for --- ---, 1968 book by Barry Hines set in Yorkshire, telling the story of Billy Casper (1,5) |
| HOVER | US word for a helicopter; an almost stationary flight of a kestrel or of the aforementioned aircraft; or, a brooder for keeping chicks warm (5) |
| RIDER | Haggard as a jockey was, he was an author (5) |
| AEHOUSMAN | English poet best known for A Shropshire Lad (1,1,7) |
| ROSWELL | New Mexico city best known for a UFO "incident" in 1947 |
| KRAKATOA | Indonesian volcano, best known for a historic 1883 eruption, which began erupting again on April 10 |
| VALMCDERMID | Scottish crime writer best known for a series of novels featuring Dr Tony Hill |
| SYDNEYNOLAN | Australian artist best known for a series of pictures of the bushranger Ned Kelly |
| PROUST | Marcel ___, French novelist best known for A la recherche du temps perdu |
| MACHIAVELLI | Italian political philosopher, best-known for a book published five years after his death |
| JACK | Word for an ordinary man first, later a knave in cards; a sailor; a national maritime flag; or, a male donkey (4) |
| ROTE | Was an author soundly taught in parrot fashion? (4) |
| WROTE | Was an author - and we include the rubbish! (5) |
| BOCCHERINI | Luigi ___, Italian composer best known for a minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No. 5 (G 275) |
