| FLORAPOSTE | Heroine of the novel Cold Comfort Farm (5,5) |
| STARKADDER | Family central to the novel Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (10) |
| STELLAGIBBONS | English writer best known for the novel Cold Comfort Farm |
| HARLOWE | Surname of the heroine of the novel Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson (7 |
| RANDALL | Rebecca, heroine of the novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (7) |
| FLORA | _ _ _ _ _ Poste, the heroine of Stella Gibbons' comic novel Cold Comfort Farm (5) |
| POSTE | Heroine of the 1932 novel Cold Comfort Farm by English author Stella Gibbons (5) |
| STELLA | Author of the 1932 novel Cold Comfort Farm, _ Gibbons (6) |
| GIBBONS | Author who wrote about Flora Poste, the Starkadders and "something nasty in the woodshed" in her comic novel Cold Comfort Farm (7) |
| ADADOOM | Owner of Cold Comfort Farm in the novel of that name by Stella Gibbons (3,4) |
| DOOM | Ada -, owner of Cold Comfort Farm in the 1932 novel of that name by Stella Gibbons (4) |
| RUFUS | Actor Sewell of "Cold Comfort Farm" |
| PARODISTS | Writers of books like Don Quixote, Shamela and Cold Comfort Farm |
| NASTY | 'Something ___ in the woodshed' (Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm (1932), repeated) (5) |
| WEBB | Novelist whose books inspired Stella Gibbons to write Cold Comfort Farm (4) |
| HOWLING | (Dog) baying; Cold Comfort Farm village |
| KATE | "Cold Comfort Farm" actress Beckinsale |
| ADA | Aunt ___ Doom, Cold Comfort Farm matriarch (3) |
| LOVEINA | Nancy Mitford novel, ... Cold Climate (4,2,1) |
| COLD | _ Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons novel (4) |
