| CHRISTIE | Best-selling author known as the Queen of Crime whose former holiday home Greenway on the River Dart is now owned by the National Trust (8) |
| CHALMERS | Judith _, former holiday show presenter whose son is Mark Durden-Smith (8) |
| JUDITH | _ Chalmers, former holiday show presenter whose son is Mark Durden-Smith (6) |
| TOTNES | Market town in Devon on the River Dart that houses a castle |
| AGATHA | Forename of the "Queen of Crime" who wrote the story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and the novel Hercule Poirot's Christmas (6) |
| PLINY | Roman author known as the Elder who died as a result of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD |
| NGAIOMARSH | NZ writer known as one of the "Queens of Crime", Dame ... (5,5) |
| MARSH | Ngaio _; New Zealand writer known as one of the queens of crime (5) |
| JAMESHOGG | Scottish poet and writer known as the "Ettrick Shepherd", whose works included The Queen's Wake (1813) |
| AGATHACHRISTIE | Novelist known as the "Queen of Crime" |
| BARBARACARTLAND | *Author known as the Queen of Romance |
| NGAIO | Associated with Maori legends, the New Zealand "mousehole tree" of coastal regions after which one of the "queens of crime" was named (5) |
| SID | and 1dn, Sports commentator and author known as the Voice of Darts who died in 2012 (3,7) |
| WADDELL | Sports commentator and author known as the Voice of Darts who died in 2012 (7) |
| POIROT | Fictional Belgian detective in "Queen of Crime" Agatha Christie's stories including The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile (6) |
| JAMES | & 50, 45 Author known as 52 42 conserves energy within - the French rest with German beside cold place of torment (5) |
| MENCKEN | Writer known as "The Sage of Baltimore" |
| EMERSON | Writer known as "The Sage of Concord" |
| HLMENCKEN | American writer known as the "Sage of Baltimore" |
| HERODOTUS | Ancient Greek writer known as the father of history |
