| DEQUINCEY | Critic and essayist who references his occupancy at his friend William Wordsworth's former house, Dove Cottage, in his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (2,7) |
| SUSANSONTAG | New York-born critic and essayist who wrote the novel The Volcano Lover (5,6) |
| PALMER | Painter influenced by his friend William Blake whose works include A Cornfield by Moonlight with the Evening Star, The Cleaning Field, The Harvest Moon and The Skylark (6) |
| SYSTEMOFADOWN | Band who references George H.W. Bush's wife and George W. Bush's daughter in "B.Y.O.B." |
| TRUMAN | In the White House, did he look odd in brown? (6) |
| SAT | What the house did today? Not likely! (3) |
| SELDOM | Small tree houses do, once in a blue moon |
| SETTLE | Some houses do it |
| ODOURLESS | Our houses - do reduce smell or lack of it (9) |
| EMERSON | Ralph Waldo ---, American poet and essayist who set out his transcendentalist philosophy in the 1936 essay Nature (7) |
| GEORGEORWELL | 20th Century novelist and essayist who wrote Animal Farm and 1984 (6,6) |
| ORWELL | George, English novelist and essayist who coined the terms Big Brother and doublethink (6) |
| CLIVEJAMES | Australian critic, novelist, TV presenter, poet and essayist who autobiographical works include Falling Towards England |
| HILAIREBELLOC | French-born poet and essayist who is best known for his Cautionary Tales for Children (7,6) |
| BACON | Francis ___, English philosopher, statesman and essayist who was the first Viscount St Albans |
| RALPHWALDOEMERSON | American poet and essayist who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century |
| LOUISEGLUCK | US poet and essayist who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature (6,5) |
| ARNOLD | Matthew ---, 19th-Century English poet and essayist who wrote the lyric poem Dover Beach (6) |
| CHARLESBAUDELAIRE | French 19th Century poet and essayist who wrote Les Fleurs du Mal |
| HAZLITT | William, early 19th-century English writer, an esteemed critic and essayist (7) |
