| CIDERWITHROSIE | Book by English writer Laurie Lee about his childhood in Gloucestershire (5,4,5) |
| ROSIE | Cider With _, 1959 book by English author Laurie Lee (5) |
| THREEMENINABOAT | Humorous book by English writer Jerome K Jerome about a holiday on the River Thames (5,3,2,1,4) |
| LEE | Writer Laurie in shelter |
| CAPOTE | Top books by English writer (6) |
| WARHORSE | Book by English author Michael Morpurgo published in 1982 later adapted for theatre and film (3,5) |
| HARDYANNUAL | Yearly book by English author - something for taking to bed? |
| CASTLEONTHEHILL | Song by Ed Sheeran about his childhood in Suffolk, released in 2017 (6,2,3,4) |
| CORFU | A Greek island in the Ionian Sea, the setting for Gerald Durrell's book about his childhood in the late 1930s (5) |
| LAURIELEE | British writer who frequently wrote about his childhood in the Slad Valley (6,3) |
| JOANNATROLLOPE | Piano accompaniment for chorus, work by English writer (6,8) |
| AGATHACHRISTIE | Complex, rich saga that is abridged by English writer (6,8) |
| SLAD | Village in Gloucestershire; home and final resting place of author Laurie Lee (4) |
| MAINE | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow spent his childhood in which US state? (5) |
| CIDER | - With Rosie ; one of Laurie Lee's memoirs about his childhood growing up in a remote Cotswold village (5) |
| DURRELL | Author who wrote about his childhood growing up in Corfu in books including My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives (7) |
| STROUD | Cotswolds town where Cider with Rosie and As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning author Laurie Lee was born (6) |
| LEGACY | 2013 Eminem song about his childhood |
| EEYORE | Gloomy donkey in the Winnie- the-Pooh books by English children's writer AA Milne (6) |
| LYCIDAS | Poem by English writer John Milton about a shepherd first published in 1638 (7) |
