| MELLY | George ?, art critic and jazz musician whose volumes of autobiography include Owning Up and Scouse Mouse |
| FRY | Roger ?, art critic associated with the Bloomsbury Group about whom Virginia Woolf wrote a 1940 biography (3) |
| DIALECTS | Rings about shocking treatment for Geordie and Scouse? (8) |
| GEORGEMELLY | Art critic and jazz musician whose volumes of autobiography include Rum, Bum and Concertina and Owning Up |
| MISSREAD | Pen name of the author Mrs. Dora Saint whose volumes of autobiography include A Fortunate Grandchild |
| COLE | Nat King - - -, 20th Century American singer-songwriter and jazz musician whose signature tune was Unforgettable (4) |
| WINN | Godfrey ___, author of volumes of autobiography The Positive Hour and The Infirm Glory (4) |
| RUSKIN | Art critic and watercolourist who wrote The Seven Lamps of Architecture and championed J. M. W. Turner in the first volume of his Modern Painters (6) |
| BRIAN | Art critic and columnist whose television credits included Big Art Challenge and The Naked Pilgrim: The Road to Santiago (5,6) |
| JOHNRUSKIN | 19th-century English art critic and social reformer whose works include Modern Painters and Unto this Last (4,6) |
| BRIANSEWELL | Art critic and columnist whose television credits included Big Art Challenge and The Naked Pilgrim: The Road to Santiago |
| SEWELL | Art critic and columnist whose television credits included Big Art Challenge and The Naked Pilgrim The Road to Santiago (5,6) |
| IVOR | And 16 British composer whose volumes of poetry include War's Embers (4,6) |
| RAYBRADBURY | Author whose volumes of short stories include The Illustrated Man and I Sing the Body Electric! (3,8) |
| PARKER | US humorist whose volumes of poetry include 1931's Death and Taxes (7,6) (see 8A) |
| DOROTHY | US humorist whose volumes of poetry include 1931's Death and Taxes (7,6) (see 9A) |
| ROBERTLOWELL | US poet whose volumes of verse include Lord Weary's Castle and For the Union Dead |
| CLIVEJAMES | Australian critic, author and broadcaster whose first volume of autobiography is entitled Unreliable |
| DOROTHYPARKER | US humorist whose volumes of poetry include 1931's Death and Taxes |
| FLECKER | James Elroy ?, London-born writer whose volumes of poetry include 1913's The Golden Journey to Samarkand |
