| CIDERWITHROSIE | Book by Laurie Lee about his childhood in Gloucestershire (5,4,5) |
| ROSIE | Cider With _, 1959 book by Laurie Lee; an account of his childhood in Gloucestershire (5) |
| CORFU | A Greek island in the Ionian Sea, the setting for Gerald Durrell's book about his childhood in the late 1930s (5) |
| CASTLEONTHEHILL | Song by Ed Sheeran about his childhood in Suffolk, released in 2017 (6,2,3,4) |
| LAURIELEE | British writer who frequently wrote about his childhood in the Slad Valley (6,3) |
| WITHROSIE | 1959 book by Laurie Lee (4,5) |
| CIDER | 1959 book by Laurie Lee (5) |
| CIDERWITH | 1959 book by Laurie Lee |
| MAINE | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow spent his childhood in which US state? (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) |
| LEGACY | 2013 Eminem song about his childhood |
| THOMAS | Poet and creator of the fictional fishing village "Llareggub", who, in Fern Hill, reflects on his childhood visits to his aunt's farm in Wales, including its apple boughs, foxes, nightjars, owls and p |
| SPITAL | Area in the Wirral in which Harold Wilson spent part of his childhood (6) |
| LINGERIE | I ring Lee about women's underwear (8) |
| GYPSY | Based on the memoirs of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee about her showbiz mother. |
| ENSILAGE | I sang to Lee about the storing of fodder |
| ELEGY | Serious poem from Lee about heartless guy |
| STROUD | Market town in Gloucestershire, where novelist Laurie Lee was born (6) |
| SLAD | Village in Gloucestershire; home and final resting place of author Laurie Lee (4) |
| BRETT | Part of butter bean rejected by Laurie, who plays Izzy Alessi in Traces (5) |
