| CHARPENTIER | Composer and writer in domestic row |
| SCRIABIN | Composer and writer mostly keeping a home |
| TUNBRIDGEWELLS | Cask composer and author found in Kentish town |
| OFFENBACH | Not working with extremes of emotion, a Baroque composer and writer of operettas (9) |
| ELGRECO | Artist, composer and author lacking answer |
| ESCOT | American composer and author |
| TERRACE | Caterer involved in domestic row (7) |
| TERRACES | Caterers involved in domestic rows (8) |
| RETRACES | Caterers involved in domestic rows (8) |
| DEDUCT | Looking back, college rings you and writer in takeaway (6) |
| WOODED | Charm director and writer in rural surroundings (6) |
| ARTDECO | God elevated Dail member and writer in style |
| SPENSER | Poet and writer in ship on turning turtle (7) |
| MAKEMERRY | Graduate and writer in Irish county have a fun time? (4,5) |
| TERRACEDHOUSES | Those involved in a domestic row |
| NOSTRADAMUS | French apothecary, astrologer and author in 1555 of a book of predictions |
| TERRACEDHOUSE | Three caroused, when involved in a bit of a domestic row (8,5) |
| WINCHESTER | Before small domestic row, lifts rifle (10) |
| FLYING | Missiles of domestic row, perhaps, that may hail from the twilight zone (6,7) |
| SAUCERS | Missiles of domestic row, perhaps, that may hail from the twilight zone (6,7) |
