| EVELYNWAUGH | English journalist and author of 'Decline and Fall' (6,5) |
| ROD | ___ Liddle, English journalist and author (3) |
| EVELYN | One of the first names of the author of Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited |
| WAUGH | Author of 'Decline and Fall' (6) |
| PIERSMORGAN | English journalist and TV presenter sacked as Editor of the Daily Mirror in 2004 (5,6) |
| LANDFALL | Journey's End the essence of Decline and Fall ? |
| OBORNE | Peter __, journalist and author of The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism (6) |
| HARRIS | Frank, British journalist and author of autobiography My Life and Loves (6) |
| ANNEAPPLEBAUM | Journalist and author of Gulag: a history (2003) (4,9) |
| WOLFF | Michael ___, U.S. journalist and author of four books about Donald Trump in power (5) |
| EDWARDGIBBON | Author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| EBB | - and flow, pattern of decline and regrowth (3) |
| NICHOLASEVANS | English journalist and novelist whose 1995 novel is one of the bestselling books of all time (8,5) |
| EBBANDFLOW | A recurrent pattern of decline and regrowth (3,3,4) |
| MICHAEL | English broadcaster, journalist and author who has written biographies of Jeffrey Archer, Michael Heseltine and Sir Alex Ferguson (7,5) |
| CRICK | English broadcaster, journalist and author who has written biographies of Jeffrey Archer, Michael Heseltine and Sir Alex Ferguson (7,5) |
| MICHAELCRICK | English broadcaster, journalist and author who has written biographies of Jeffrey Archer. Michael Heseltine and Sir Alex Ferguson (7,5) |
| MORGAN | English journalist and TV presenter sacked as Editor of the Daily Mirror in 2004 (5,6) |
| PIERS | English journalist and TV presenter sack as Editor of the Daily Mirror in 2004 (5,6) |
| KELLNER | Peter ___, English journalist and political commentator who was President of YouGov from 2007 to 2016 |
