| WILLIAMMORRIS | English poet, designer, craftsman and socialist writer who founded the Kelmscott Press (7,6) |
| TRESTLE | Support socialist writer, we hear (7) |
| ORWELL | Socialist author otherwise sensible (6) |
| MORRIS | William ?, artist and writer who founded the Kelmscott Press in 1891 |
| TALENTSPOTTER | Christian festival in Tasmania presented by craftsman and scout (6,7) |
| CARLBECHSTEIN | Piano craftsman and manufacturer born in Thuringia, Germany, in 1826 |
| BATTLESCARRED | Damaged by fighting, Mark and socialist pursue wrong tablet |
| DINNERPARTIES | At which Tories and Socialists make a meal of it first? (6,7) |
| DURRELL | Gerald, British naturalist and writer who founded the zoo on the island of Jersey (7) |
| BADENPOWELL | Robert _-_, British officer and writer who founded the Scouting movement (5-6) |
| HUBBARD | US science fiction writer who founded the Church of Scientology (1,3,7) |
| LRON | US science fiction writer who founded the Church of Scientology (1,3,7) |
| HAZAN | Eric ***** , writer who founded the publishing house La Fabrique (5) |
| CALLIL | Carmen, feminist publisher and writer who founded Virago Press in 1973 (6) |
| COMTE | Auguste - - -, French philosopher and writer who founded positivism (5) |
| PENN | William -, Quaker writer who founded a NE American state, after whose father it is named |
| NEILL | A S ___, Scottish progressive educator and author who founded Summerhill school |
| OCASEY | Sean ---, Irish dramatist and socialist whose works include Juno And The Paycock (6) |
| ROSSETTI | A leader of the Pre-Raphaelites whose painting Water Willow depicts Jane Morris with Kelmscott Manor in the background (8) |
| RAND | Writer who founded Objectivism |
