| STYLIST | Catalogue of pens for a fine writer? (7) |
| PENALTY | Possibly a fine writer with key ending to play (7) |
| FOUNTAINPEN | Fine writer? (8,3) |
| STYLISTS | Designers who record the numbers of pens for certain animals (8) |
| STAY | Word, related to a term for a seller of ink, paper and pens, for a sojourn, stop-off, stopover or other standstill (4) |
| SUNBATHER | Newspaper article outlaw pens for a tanner |
| FINEPOINT | Common kind of pen for illustrators |
| GOODEGG | Term, used by the likes of Rudyard Kipling and P G Wodehouse, for a fine or decent person; or, an oldfashioned exclamation of delight (4,3) |
| RATAFIA | Basket-maker getting thanks for a fine biscuit (7) |
| STORMER | British party leader with love for a fine performance? (7) |
| PROFANE | Irreverent pen, for a change (7) |
| SITWELL | Pose with fine writer (7) |
| DICKENS | Devilish fine writer! (7) |
| NABOKOV | Arrest old Victor, having abducted fine writer |
| SNAPPED | Took photo of pens, pad, letters (7) |
| HURDLES | Galvanised, wooden or willow moveable barriers used to make temporary pens for livestock (7) |
| STUDIES | Daughter attending University brought in pens for lessons |
| CORRALS | Pens for cattles, horses |
| RESEAU | From French for "net, web", a word for a fine mesh ground for lacework; or, a network of things, in particular spies or lines for reference in star photographs (6) |
| FOLD | A pen for a flock of sheep of the same name; or, by extension, a church and its congregation (4) |
