| JAMESMAY | Ex-Top Gear presenter whose book Notes From The Hard Shoulder was published in 2007 (5,3) |
| KLEIN | Gardeners' World co-presenter whose book, Life in a Cottage Garden, accompanies the television series of the same name (5) |
| BRYSON | Bill, U.S. travel and science writer noted for his 1995 book Notes from a Small Island (6) |
| MAY | James _, ex-Top Gear presenter (3) |
| NEEDELL | Ex-top Gear presenter, Tiff ------- (7) |
| PADDY | Ex-Top Gear presenter Mr McGuinness' fit of temper (5) |
| LAHR | Subject of the book "Notes on a Cowardly Lion" |
| PULLOVER | Go onto the hard shoulder in sweater |
| BYTHEWAY | On the hard shoulder, incidentally (2,3,3) |
| PLEASANT | see 30ac, Award-winning debut novel by Irish playwright Derek Landy, published in 2007, about an undead sorcerer and detectiv3 |
| WELLDONE | Praise from the hard-boiled? (4,4) |
| CLARKSON | Former Top Gear presenter now trying the farming life (Jeremy --------) |
| LASTPOST | Continue with letters, passing notes from the military? |
| EMPLOYER | One uses tactic to intercept notes from the East (8) |
| SNEDEKER | Ex-top 10 ranked golfer, Brandt ... (8) |
| DIEHARDS | Zealots found blocking road, ie hard shoulder (8) |
| ROADSIDE | Attack dislocates boy's hard shoulder (8) |
| FLINTOFF | Top Gear presenter and former cricketer, Andrew 'Freddie' -------- (8) |
| LEBLANC | Matt ___, ex-top Gear host who was Joey Tribbiani in Friends (2,5) |
| DEATHLY | Harry Potter And The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Hallows, final novel in the series by J.K. Rowling, published in 2007 (7) |
