| DICKENS | Famous Victorian maker of children's cakes (7) |
| CHARLES | Famous Victorian maker of children's cakes (7) |
| WGGRACE | Famous Victorian cricketer (1,1,5) |
| CHARLESDICKENS | Children's cakes distributed by author (7,7) |
| SPRIG | Scion is last of famous Victorian (5) |
| MRSBEETON | Famous Victorian cookery writer (3,6) |
| NEDKELLY | Famous Victorian bushranger (3,5) |
| TENNYSON | Famous Victorian poet who gave us the phrase: 'Nature, red in tooth and claw' (8) |
| RANSOME | Arthur ---, author of the Swallows And Amazons series of children's books (7) |
| SWALLOW | The name of Arthur Ransome's dinghy, which he used in his series of children's books (7) |
| PEARLIE | '-- in the Park', the first of a series of children's books by Wendy Harmer (7) |
| GUMDROP | Which vintage Austin car is the hero of a series of children's books by Val Biro? (7) |
| DRSEUSS | Pen name of the author and illustrator of a number of children's books including Green Eggs and Ham and The Cat in the Hat (2,5) |
| BEATRIX | -- Potter, 1866-1943, author of children's books (7) |
| GRIFTER | Former model of children's Raleigh bicycle (7) |
| TOYSHOP | Retailer of children's playthings (7) |
| KASTNER | Erich, author of children's book Emil and the Detectives (7) |
| BIGGLES | Pilot hero of children's stories (7) |
| ROBERTS | Professor Alice _, author of children's novel Wolf Road (7) |
| TOYLAND | Told any cobblers in realm of children's tales? (7) |
