| MARQUISDESADE | French writer, male, is dead square? Wrong! |
| MISHIMA | Japanese writer, male - his aim is astray |
| POEM | American writer, male, produces verse (4) |
| EPICPOEM | The Song of Hiawatha, say, and English film by US writer, male |
| MINIM | In after medicine, the writer (male) gets the smallest measure (5) |
| LONDONISM | Rhyming slang, say, is included by US author, male (9) |
| IMAGES | This writer's male servant's topless pictures (6) |
| HEMINGWAY | Author, male, on pottery course (9) |
| WISCONSIN | State is stopping John working? Wrong! (9) |
| AWRY | Right in a wrong way? Wrong! (4) |
| TARDIS | Who's machine? Is dat right? Wrong! (6) |
| DEATHBYDROWNING | Holt's presumed fate, being baddy in the wrong? Wrong! (5,2,8) |
| USER | Employer is sure? Wrong! (4) |
| DESPAIRS | Loses heart and is spared? Wrong! (8) |
| TIGRISH | Bad-tempered is right? Wrong! (7) |
| AMISS | A manuscript is to go in it? Wrong! (5) |
| SINFUL | Some birds in full flight? Wrong! (6) |
| GREATMALVERN | Town where Elgar meant very little, right? Wrong! (5,7) |
| CATHARI | Sectarians from Ithaca, right? Wrong! (7) |
| MISTAKEN | Half-minute steak done? Wrong! (8) |
