| WINN | Godfrey -, author of volumes of autobiography The Positive Hour and The Infirm Glory |
| BRICKHILL | Royal Australian Air Force pilot in the Second World War; author of volumes The Dam Busters and The Great Escape (4,9) |
| PAUL | Royal Australian Air Force pilot in the Second World War; author of volumes The Dam Busters and The Great Escape (4,9) |
| PAULBRICKHILL | Royal Australian Air Force pilot in WWII; author of volumes The Dam Busters and The Great Escape |
| JOHNMONTAGUE | Author of volumes Drunken Sailor and Smashing the Piano; Ireland Chair of Poetry from 1998-2001 |
| HELLMAN | Dramatist whose plays include The Autumn Garden, Toys in the Attic, The Children's Hour and The Litt |
| HARE | Dramatist and screenwriter noted for plays Plenty, Skylight and Stuff Happens and films The Hours and The Reader (4) |
| DONMARQUIS | US author of stage plays The Dark Hours and The Old Soak |
| DON | & 21A US author of stage plays The Dark Hours and The Old Soak (3,7) |
| MARQUIS | US author of stage plays The Dark Hours and The Old Soak (7) |
| CRISP | Quentin, author of autobiography The Naked Civil Servant (5) |
| PETERPORTER | Australia-born poet, author of volumes Max is Missing and Afterburner, who died in 2010 (5,6) |
| TOFADE | "Clock strikes up the hour and the sun begins ___ ___" |
| GARAI | Romola _, British actress whose TV credits include The Hour and The Miniaturist (5) |
| JAMES | Actress in films including Darkest Hour and The Dig (5) |
| EST | Subject discussed in "60 Minutes and the Assassination of Werner Erhard" |
| GALLON | Measure of volume of ship having no energy source (6) |
| TWEAKED | Edward embraced the infirm and pinched sharply (7) |
| RATES | $25/hour and the like |
| CAREFREE | Provision for the infirm at no cost? That could make one happy-go-lucky (8) |
