| BAKKHHEEH | Discussing second novel she adapted, given a tip |
| DUST | Heat and -; novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala which she adapted into a screenplay (4) |
| APPOINT | Given a tip, say, to nominate |
| UPENDED | Having finished twice, given a tip |
| CAPTIVE | The prisoner, given a tip-off, is found in grotto (7) |
| ALERTED | Given a tip |
| CUED | Given a tip |
| MECHANISE | Automate cinema she adapted (9) |
| HEAD | She adapted part of top |
| DANIELDERONDA | Novel by George Eliot, first published in 1876, the last novel she completed (6,7) |
| AYESHA | "She-who-must-be-obeyed" in the novel She by Henry Rider Haggard |
| HORACEHOLLY | Cambridge University professor in H. Rider Haggard's novel 'She' (6,5) |
| AUTHORESS | Novel she 'as out? That's about right! |
| QUEENSSPEECH | Sequence she adapted covers parliament's opening, as does this oration (6,6) |
| FACTOTUM | Second novel written by Charles Bukowski which was adapted into a film starring Marisa Tomei |
| ORWELL | Pen name of an author who describes his experiences of "healthy, outdoor work" as a hop-picker in his diaries, an essay and in his second novel, A Clergyman's Daughter (6) |
| LAWN | Word for a glade between woods originally, later a level green or sward of mown grass or of clipped camomile, as described in Mary Wesley's second novel (4) |
| CHEVALIER | Tracy ---, author whose second novel was Girl With A Pearl Earring (9) |
| DRED | Harriet Beecher Stowe's second novel, ...; A Tale Of The Great Dismal Swamp |
| ACLASHOFKINGS | Second novel in the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin: 4 wds. |
