| POWYS | Educated at Sherborne and Cambridge, one of three literary brothers who wrote Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance, Weymouth Sands and Maiden Castle (5) |
| YEOVIL | Town between Sherborne and Crewkerne (6) |
| CANTABILE | At Cambridge, one beginning to learn English singing style |
| BRONTE | One of three literary sisters |
| RIVERYEO | At the start of October, the very first experience I had on a raft left me shaken -- I fell into the water at Sherborne (5,3) |
| YEO | River crossed by Waterloo-Exeter line at Sherborne (3) |
| SITWELL | Eldest of three literary siblings who wrote the poetry collection Facade and novelised biography of Jonathan Swift I Live Under a Black Sun (7) |
| RALEIGH | Potato-popularising smoking man who, despite losing favour with a queen and his head to an axe following his final doomed fleet, still reigns as a US city and a Sherborne Castle seat (7) |
| EDITH | ___ Sitwell, former poet and eldest of three literary siblings (5) |
| GRIMM | Surname of the 19th century German brothers who wrote fairy tales (5) |
| ANNEBRONTE | Youngest of three literary sisters from Howarth, West Yorkshire (4,6) |
| TRILOGY | Set of three literary works (7) |
| HOT | Olivia Colman, who was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, co-starred in the police comedy ... Fuzz and will play Madame Thernardier in the new BBC adaptation of ... Miserables (3,3) |
| GIBB | Surname of the singing brothers who wrote Tragedy |
| COEN | Brothers who wrote and directed Fargo (4) |
| THEONE | Joe Crowley, who was educated at Hewett School, is a roving reporter for ... Show (3, 3) |
| CASTLETON | My cat got lost last June -- it was found wandering around a back garden just outside of Sherborne (9) |
| KARAMAZOV | Literary brothers mark a stormy sea |
| CANTAB | Suffix indicating one has been educated at Cambridge (6) |
| VANITYFAIR | Which Thackeray novel follows the fortunes of Rebecca Sharp and Amelia Sedley, both educated at Miss Pinkerton's Academy? (6,4) |
