| KELLER | Helen ---, US author and lecturer who was blind and deaf from infancy (6) |
| HELENKELLER | American author and lecturer who was blind and deaf from infancy (5,6) |
| KANE | Helen --, US singer whose signature song was "I Wanna Be Loved by You" (4) |
| MANNER | Used to the country house life from infancy, we hear (2,3,6,4) |
| EULER | Mathematician who was blind for his last 17 years |
| TOTHE | Used to the country house life from infancy, we hear (2,3,6,4) |
| BORN | Used to the country house life from infancy, we hear (2,3,6,4) |
| CAPOTE | Truman _, US writer and actor; author of 1958 novella Breakfast At Tiffany's (6) |
| NOAMCHOMSKY | American linguist, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer who joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955 |
| MOSTLY | Doctor and lecturer visiting a filthy place chiefly (6) |
| ELMORE | US author and screenwriter, ... Leonard |
| HUNTER | US author and journalist, S. Thompson |
| EDWARD | US writer and artist whose works include 1963 volume The Gashlycrumb Tinies (6,5) |
| SENDAK | Maurice ---, US writer and illustrator of children's books, including Where The Wild Things Are (6) |
| SONTAG | Susan _, US writer and political activist whose essay collections include 1977's On Photography (6) |
| RUNYON | Damon ___, 1880-1946, US writer and journalist (6) |
| CANDLE | Source of light kept by academic and lecturers (6) |
| SAMUELCLEMENS | Real name of the author, publisher and lecturer who created Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (6,7) |
| HELEN | Blind and deaf lecturer Keller who died in 1968 |
| MELBOURNE | This writer and lecturer, prefacing book on our Tyneside PM of former days (9) |
