| COOKSON | Catherine ---, popular author whose novels were set in her native northeast England |
| CATHERINECOOKSON | The novels by ____were mostly set in her native South Tyneside |
| DIEHARD | Did hear model is set in her ways (3,4) |
| FOSSILISES | Flossie is finally furious when Dotty gets set in her ways (10) |
| PANKHURST | Emmeline ___, suffragette memorialised in statue in St Peter's Square, in her native Manchester (9) |
| TOLKIEN | Oxford professor whose celebrated stories were set in Middle Earth, JRR ... |
| FAULKNER | William ..., US novelist whose works were set in the southern states |
| MOTHERLAND | Woman to come down to earth in her native country |
| RIHANNA | Recording artist hailed as a national hero in her native Barbados (7) |
| JEANNEDARC | The Maid of Orleans in her native language (6,4) |
| CRONIN | Archibald Joseph, whose novels were expertly doctored (6) |
| SEUSS | Popular author most of whose work is written in anapestic tetrameter |
| INGLOBE | Where Shakespeare's plays were set in the round (7) |
| STIEGLARSSON | Best-selling Swedish author whose 'Millennium Trilogy' novels were published after his death in 2004 (5,7) |
| SHORTHORN | Popular breed of cattle originating in northeast England (9) |
| BURLEY | Author whose Wycliffe novels were adapted into a television drama (6) |
| LEOTOLSTOY | Russian author whose first published novels were the Autobiographical Trilogy of 1852-57 |
| ARLINGTON | Daughter left town in northeast England for place in Virginia (9) |
| JEKYLL | Drawing inspiration from her native cottage/farmyard gardens, an English landscape architect renowned for her work in collaboration with architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (6) |
| REPAT | One returning to her native land, in brief |
