| MRSBEETON | Isabella, who wrote the Book of Household Management |
| BEETON | Surname of the short-lived Victorian author Isabella, who penned a notable tome on cookery, domestic bliss and household management (6) |
| ROSSELLINI | Isabella who played Hitchcock, Chaplin, Fellini, her mother, and her father, in the short film "My Dad Is 100 Years Old" |
| UTENSILS | Kitchenalia with Victorian forms illustrated in Book of Household Management (8) |
| BLANCMANGE | Old fashioned jelly-like pudding with a recipe in Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management (10) |
| AVICENNA | Name by which the Persian polymath who wrote The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine is known (8) |
| KUNDERA | Czech novelist who wrote The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (7) |
| IDLE | Comedian who wrote the book of the Broadway musical Spamalot (4,4) |
| ERIC | Comedian who wrote the book of the Broadway musical Spamalot (4,4) |
| ERICIDLE | Comedian who wrote the book of the Broadway musical Spamalot (4,4) |
| EZRA | Prophet who wrote the Book of Chronicles |
| JANE | Goodall who wrote "The Book of Hope" |
| RILKE | Bohemian-Austrian poet who wrote The Book of Hours, Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus (5) |
| WILLSELF | Journalist and broadcaster who wrote The Book of Dave (2006) and Umbrella (2012) |
| HOMEECONOMICS | Study of household management |
| DOMESTICECONOMY | Principles of household management |
| ELDOCTOROW | He wrote "The Book of Daniel" |
| MANAGEMENT | Mrs Beeton's Book of Household ---------- (10) |
| NATE | Statistician Silver who wrote the book "The Signal and the Noise" |
| SALVADORDALI | Who wrote the book The Secret Life of Salvador Dali? (8,4) |
