| COLDCOMFORTFARM | Book by Stella Gibbons |
| FLORA | Roman goddess of spring; the first name of the heroine in Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons; or, a type of illustrated book on plant life (5) |
| COLDCOMFORT | 1932 novel by Stella Gibbons (4,7,4) |
| FARM | 1932 novel by Stella Gibbons (4,7,4) |
| ADADOOM | Owner of Cold Comfort Farm in the novel of that name by Stella Gibbons (3,4) |
| DOOM | Ada -, owner of Cold Comfort Farm in the 1932 novel of that name by Stella Gibbons (4) |
| STARKADDER | Family central to the novel Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (10) |
| RIPTIDE | 2011 novel by Stella Rimington (3,4) |
| RETURN | The Rovers __ Inn, recently refurbished public house run by Stella Price and located on Coronation Street (6) |
| POSTE | Surname of the heroine "Flora" in Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm, portrayed by Kate Beckinsale in a television film adaptation (5) |
| COLD | _ Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons novel (4) |
| WEBB | Novelist whose books inspired Stella Gibbons to write Cold Comfort Farm (4) |
| FLORAPOSTE | Heroine of 1932 Stella Gibbons novel Cold Comfort Farm |
| SHED | A hut, lean-to, small building etc for bikes, cattle, firewood, hobbies, garden storage or, according to Stella Gibbons, "something nasty" (4) |
| NASTY | 'Something ___ in the woodshed' (Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm (1932), repeated) (5) |
| ACADEMYAWARD | Statuette designed in 1928 by Cedric Gibbons |
| OSCARS | Statuettes designed by art director Cedric Gibbons |
| HATE | 2014 children's novel by Alan Gibbons (4) |
| COMPOSER | Gibbons perhaps turn up tailless and sit by river (8) |
| PETWORTH | Stately home in Sussex with a room featuring Grinling Gibbons' carvings of fruit, flowers and birds that frame a number of paintings including landscapes by Turner (8) |
