| APHRA | England's first known professional female writer, interred in Westminster Abbey in 1689 (5) |
| BEHN | England's first known professional female writer, interred in Westminster Abbey in 1689 (4) |
| CHAUCER | First poet interred in Westminster Abbey's Poets Corner 1400), followed by Edmund Spenser in 1599 (8,7) |
| GEOFFREY | First poet interred in Westminster Abbey's Poets Corner 1400), followed by Edmund Spenser in 1599 (8,7) |
| ENTOMBED | Mary Queen of Scots was ---- in Westminster Abbey in 1612 (8) |
| JOYCE | ,24ac First comedian granted a memorial service at Westminster Abbey, in 1980 (5, 8) |
| PRIOR | Matthew ---, English poet and diplomat buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey in 1721 (5) |
| POETS | Section of Westminster Abbey in which eminent writers are commemorated (5,6) |
| SCONE | The Stone of ___, removed from Westminster Abbey in December 1950 by four students (5) |
| LEWIS | Honoured with a memorial stone in Westminster Abbey, author of the Narnia books (5) |
| RESIN | Creatures interred in amber (5) |
| CLUNY | Benedictine abbey in central France built in 910 (5) |
| FROST | Interviewer whose memorial stone is the most recent addition to Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey |
| LENIN | He's interred in Red Square |
| WYATT | Architect who designed Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire (now demolished) (5) |
| ISAAC | Physicist Newton who is buried in Westminster Abbey |
| EYING | Examining part of abbey in Galway |
| LIVINGSTONE | David ___, Scottish missionary and explorer interred in the nave of Westminster Abbey on April 18, 1874 (11) |
| GREEKDRAMA | A darker gem produced in the equivalent of the abbey in Athens (5,5) |
| MUTINYACT | The first such law, introduced in William and Mary's reign in 1689, restrained the monarch's control over military forces (6,3) |
