| GALT | John ___, Scottish author of novels The Ayrshire Legatees and Annals of the Parish (4) |
| BUCHAN | John ___, Scottish author of novels including The Thirty-Nine Steps (6) |
| HOGG | James ___, Scottish author of 1824 novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (4) |
| MUIR | John ___, Scottish-born naturalist, botanist, zoologist and author, credited with the creation of the US's National Parks (4) |
| 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 |
| KNOX | John ___, Scottish Presbyterian founder (4) |
| TSAR | Ruler relegated to the annals of history |
| ERAS | Annals of history |
| SMOLLETT | Tobias ___ Scottish author of novels including The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) |
| MCPHEE | John ___, author of "Annals of the Former World" |
| GRAHAME | Kenneth _, Scottish author of The Wind In The Willows (1908) |
| TEY | Josephine ___ (Scottish author of The Daughter of Time) |
| FRANKPICKLE | Clerk of the parish council played by John Bluthal in 'The Vicar of Dibley' (5,6) |
| NAPIER | John ___, Scottish mathematician who originated the system of logarithms in the 16th and 17th centuries (6) |
| IRVINEWELSH | Scottish author of novels including the upcoming Resolution (2024) (6,5) |
| STEVENSON | Robert Louis ___, Scottish author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped |
