| MILLAIS | Co-founder of the "PRB" who painted Autumn Leaves and Bubbles and illustrated books by Anthony Trollope including Phineas Finn (7) |
| ROSSETTI | Painter and poet of the PRB whose wife Elizabeth Siddal, or "Guggums", is immortalised in the character of Beatrice in Beata Beatrix (8) |
| RURITANIA | Fictional country in central Europe which forms the setting for three books by Anthony Hope |
| BRIDGETRILEY | English op art exponent who painted Fall in 1963 (7,5) |
| RAKEDIN | Collected autumn leaves and got a big commission? (5,2) |
| CASSON | Director of architecture at the Festival of Britain who was elected president of the Royal Academy in 1976 and illustrated the Prince of Wales' The Old Man of Lochnagar (6) |
| PHIZ | Pen name of the artist who illustrated books by Charles Dickens, or "Boz" (4) |
| BROWNE | Hablot Knight ___, artist known by the pen name Phiz, who illustrated books by Charles Dickens (6) |
| POTTER | Author of a series of illustrated books published by Frederick Wame & Co. who bequeathed 15 farms and some 4,000 acres to the National Trust (6) |
| WARNE | Founder of a company, now an imprint, that has published Beatrix Potter's illustrated books including The Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Tailor of Gloucester for some 120 years (5) |
| TOAD | Frog and -; series of illustrated books by Arnold Lobel (4) |
| ANORDINARYKILLER | Book by Anthony Hornus, and a 2003 film about the murder of Dawn Magyar in 1973 in Michigan (2,8,6) |
| 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) |
| COLLINS | Author of The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Poor Miss Finch and the illustrated book narrating his walking tour of Cornwall Rambles Beyond Railways (7) |
| VICTORIAPLUM | Character in a series of illustrated books by Angela Rippon (8,4) |
| LEAR | Author of literary nonsense and illustrated travel books who was a talented painter of parrots and Queen Victoria's drawing instructor (4) |
| WHATAMESS | Series of children's books written by Frank Muir and illustrated by Joseph Wright about an accident-prone Afghan hound puppy |
| ASTERIX | Character in a series of French comic books written by Rene Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo |
| MADELINE | Heroine of a series of children's books written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans (8) |
| LEIGHTON | Artist who painted Flaming June and illustrated the first edition of George Eliot's novel Romola (8) |
