| EDELS | Joyce and James biographies |
| PENNANTS | Sounds like three Hail Marys and two Our Fathers for flying the flag for James Joyce and Samuel Beckett? (8) |
| BINCHY | Author of novels including Circle of Friends and A Week in Winter who outsold James Joyce and Oscar Wilde (6) |
| GAELS | James Joyce and William Butler Yeats |
| IRELAND | Home of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde |
| IRISH | Like James Joyce and leprechauns |
| ETTORESCHMITZ | What is the birth name of Italo Svevo, who was taught English by James Joyce and wrote The Confessio |
| ELAINES | Actresses Joyce and Stritch |
| IRISHMEN | Joyce and Yeats, for two |
| GEORGEANDMILDRED | British sitcom starring Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy |
| EIRE | Homeland of Joyce and Yeats |
| WRITERSBLOCK | Unable to email perhaps from where Joyce and Beckett lived? (6'1,5) |
| EXPATS | Former Dublin footballers with Joyce and Beckett in France (6) |
| NICOLSON | Author of Diaries and Letters and biographies of figures including Tennyson, Byron and Swinburne who lived at Sissinghurst Castle with his wife Vita Sackville-West (8) |
| MICHAEL | English broadcaster, journalist and author who has written biographies of Jeffrey Archer, Michael Heseltine and Sir Alex Ferguson (7,5) |
| CRICK | English broadcaster, journalist and author who has written biographies of Jeffrey Archer, Michael Heseltine and Sir Alex Ferguson (7,5) |
| AMBROSE | Historian who wrote biographies of Eisenhower and Nixon |
| PASTLIVES | History and biographies' old incarnations (4,5) |
| SUPERCONDUCTORS | "Iggy, these biographies of Stokowski and Toscanini don't really apply to our project on ..." |
| FARSI | Footballers admit writing and finishing biographies in foreign language (5) |
