| TRAVERSAL | Crossing a line, an author left (9) |
| FIREALARM | Warning sound from gun, crossing a line |
| IMPORTANT | Crucial this writer's left a set of books (9) |
| IMPORTUNE | This writer's left with a French female creating torment |
| ABANDONED | A town in Cork contacted writer left in the lurch (9) |
| EXPLETIVE | Swear-word? The writer's left in old favourite for a start |
| MELODIOUS | This writer left hateful musical (9) |
| LINKLATER | Writer left after collecting something he'd need? |
| LEVEL | Instrument with an air bubble designed to determine a horizontal or plumb line; an area of flat farmland; or, a section of a video game (5) |
| TODBER | After my son, a leading author, left Broadstone, he moved to a place near East Stour (6) |
| SCRIPT | "Something written" by way of cursive, calligraphy, an examinee's answer paper, hand, a libretto, lines, an , a screenplay or other text (6) |
| GOGOL | Russian author left by such an erotic dancer (5) |
| BIFILAR | Double-threaded fiction withdrawn: its author's left a bit down |
| SPAIN | Bridge crossing a line in the country (5) |
| SCAB | One crossing a line |
| TDS | Notable examples of crossing a line, in brief |
| GOINGTOOFAR | Crossing a line |
| HERCULEPOIROT | Crossing a line, poor Hitler clue upset solver |
| SEWELL | Black Beauty author left East Sussex town to make a comeback (6) |
| ITLL | "___ never work!" (line an inventor may hear) |
