| ALLTHESAME | Compound of lethal arsenic returned by the writer nevertheless (3,3,4) |
| STEVENSON | Scottish author nevertheless Samoan at the end, by the way (9) |
| EASTERTIME | Treatise translated by the writer celebrated period of religious festival (10) |
| METROPOLIS | Store opening recalled by the writer in city |
| VIRULENCES | Six regulations about 50% chance of lethal qualities (10) |
| OPENSESAME | Unusual soap seen by the writer is a very effective method for producing a desired result (4,6) |
| MEDICI | 99: the same reference returned by the great patrons of Florence (6) |
| SILESIA | Part of Europe is returned by the French in Alsace at the outset (7) |
| TOME | Book of the Old Testament returned by the first person (4) |
| POIROT | Fictional detective created by the writer Agatha Christie who first visited Mallorca in 1932 and loved the area around Puerto Pollensa in the north of the island (7,6) |
| HERCULE | Fictional detective created by the writer Agatha Christie who first visited Mallorca in 1932 and loved the area around Puerto Pollensa in the north of the island (7,6) |
| GODFREY | Sitcom character played by the writer of the 1923 play The Ghost Train (7) |
| BEEFSTEAK | Money returned by the way, covered by bill for meat (4,5) |
| SHERIF | Quiet, the fire is being returned by the Arabian chieftain (6) |
| NORMANS | The Stormin' -; one of the books in the Horrible Histories series by the author-and-illustrator team |
| IAM | Self-introduction by the writer of the first gospel (1,2,7) |
| MATTHEW | Self-introduction by the writer of the first gospel (1,2,7) |
| ADRAMACRITICIS | Part 1 of a quip by the writer named in the circled letters |
| TWITS | The -; book by the author of George's Marvellous Medicine and The BFG (5) |
| SASE | Enclosure returned by the P.O. |
