| ILLUSTRIOUS | Noted writer, liberal one featuring in glossy (11) |
| DAHL | Children's writer Liberal had taken up earlier |
| PHOTOFINISH | Sporting moment captured in glossy perhaps? (5,6) |
| NONET | Musical work, one featuring in London concert ultimately |
| ABANDONED | Resigned from music group, one featuring in commercial |
| ACONITE | Poisonous plant, one featuring in a short story |
| VIENNA | One featuring in sort of diagram, a capital city (6) |
| GOOSEBERRYBUSH | Odd person, the president, one featuring in reply to children's question |
| CALLIOPE | Completely with one featuring in Carry On Muse (8) |
| MADEIRA | Island, one featuring in a dream, fantastically |
| NATALIE | Wood perhaps one featuring in native story |
| BISCUIT | Teatime food, one featuring in work of Cubist (7) |
| OMITTABLE | One featuring in Tom's new programme is disregardable (9) |
| THIEF | Light-fingered sort, one featuring in article on France (5) |
| ANTIHERO | Flawed protagonist — one featuring in another novel |
| SHRIEK | One featuring in film, Scream (6) |
| LOIRE | River, one featuring in folk legend |
| MAYING | Spring celebration, Scottish one featuring in weekly, perhaps |
| LONGAGO | It's no good one featuring in design of the past (4-3) |
| FIGURANT | One's featuring in play with no hint of eloquence being required? (8) |
