| GALT | John -, Scottish author of novels The Ayrshire Legatees and Annals of the Parish (4) |
| BUCHAN | John, Scottish writer who wrote the adventure novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (6) |
| GEOL | Subj. of John McPhee's "Annals of the Former World" |
| GLOW | With "moonlight", a hasty departure or disappearing act to avoid payment of rent owed, supposedly at night by the rays of the "parish lantern" (4) |
| FLIT | With "moonlight", a hasty departure or disappearing act to avoid payment of rent owed, supposedly at night by the rays of the "parish lantern" (4) |
| LIVY | "The Annals of the Roman People" historian |
| TACITUS | Writer of histories and annals of the Roman Empire |
| TSAR | Ruler relegated to the annals of history |
| ERAS | Annals of history |
| HEIR | The woman with one legatee |
| MCPHEE | John ___, author of "Annals of the Former World" |
| SMOLLETT | Tobias ___ Scottish author of novels including The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) |
| FRANKPICKLE | Clerk of the parish council played by John Bluthal in 'The Vicar of Dibley' (5,6) |
| IRVINEWELSH | Scottish author of novels including the upcoming Resolution (2024) (6,5) |
| MOSGIEL | Otago town which takes its name from the Ayrshire farm of Scottish poet Robert Burns (7) |
| MURIELSPARK | Scottish author of novels including Memento Mori (1959) (6,5) |
| HORTON | Vicar of Dibley's chairman of the parish council, David ... (6) |
| DIEGOMARADONA | Whose "hand of God" claim secured his place in the annals of sports cheats? (5,8) |
| REBUS | Ian Rankin's detective uses some of the Ayrshire buses (5) |
| NEWSLETTER | Accommodation in western scheme offers a view of the parish (10) |
