| RUSKIN | John -, English art critic whose works include three-volume book The Stones of Venice (6) |
| VALERY | Paul -, French poet and critic whose works include 1917's La Jeune Parque (6) |
| LANDIS | John, director whose films include Three Amigos and Trading Places (6) |
| BEIRUT | Capital, but includes three-quarters of the Republic of Ireland (6) |
| OFTIME | A Dance To The - - - - - - - - -, 12-volume book series by Anthony Powell (5,2,4) |
| JOHNRUSKIN | The Stones of Venice art critic (4,6) |
| SELVES | "That men may rise on stepping-stones / Of their dead ___ to higher things": Tennyson |
| SHABBY | Poor cast includes three from Swedish group (6) |
| BACON | Francis, artist whose works include Three Studies for Figures at the base of a Crucifixion (5) |
| HAZLITT | William -; essayist and critic whose works include Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, Table-Talk and The Spirit of the Age (7) |
| PATER | Walter ___, English essayist and critic whose works include the novel Marius the Epicurean |
| MARINAWARNER | Author and critic whose works include "The Lost Father" and "The Leto Bundle" |
| GEORGEBERNARDSHAW | Irish dramatist and critic whose works include Arms and the Man and Pygmalion (6,7,4) |
| ELIOT | T S ___, American poet, playwright, and literary critic whose works include The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock |
| STEIN | Gertrude, American writer whose works include Three Lives (5) |
| PAULVALERY | French poet and critic whose works include 1917's La Jeune Parque (4,6) |
| STRACHEY | Lytton ---, British writer and critic whose works include the biography Eminent Victorians (8) |
| AMYGDALIN | A bitter compound extracted from bitter almonds and the stones of peaches etc (9) |
| MARTINSHORT | Canadian-American comedian and actor whose films include Three Amigos and Mars Attacks! (6,5) |
| STYNE | Jule, songwriter whose melodies include Three Coins in the Fountain (5) |
