| BRONTESISTERS | Famous writers say sorry to the Irish for heartless article on nuns |
| OWED | ___ an apology (needed to say sorry to) |
| RUEFUL | Sorry to the French for street with foul gas leak (6) |
| SUNBONNET | Bet on nuns somehow making baby's hat |
| STEPSISTER | Cinderella's ugly relative to tread on nun (10) |
| PENITENCE | Remorse of writer in church admitting heartless article |
| INTERESTED | Engrossed in heartless article, then relaxed (10) |
| SHUN | Avoid such heartless article in French |
| IMMORTAL | Famous writer's message is about temperature (8) |
| HARDCOPY | Police officer enthralled by famous writer's version that's printed |
| HOMER | Famous writer's sporting run |
| ARTISTS | The Tsarist upheaval for painters, sculptors and writers, say (7) |
| REGRET | Right to get her on to say sorry (6) |
| APOLOGISE | Say sorry after a game with the soldier leads to some set-to (9) |
| SLOB | Word, from the Irish for clabber, mire, mud, ooze or sludge, for an unrefined boor of slovenly lazy habits (4) |
| LEITRIM | Least populous of the OBC 32 counties of Ireland, named from the Irish for "grey ridge" (7) |
| COSSET | Dialect, from the Irish for "banquet, feast", meaning chatter amiably, coddle, pamper or spoil rotten; otherwise, to live, dine out or be entertained at another's expense (6) |
| TORIES | Conservative-leaning politicians, from the Irish for 'robbers' (6) |
| ASAL | What is the Irish for donkey or ass? (4) |
| RUADE | Boy's name that derives from the Irish for 'red king' (5) |
