| ASBYATT | Novelist and critic, the elder sister of Margaret Drabble |
| LORETTA | _ Lynn, US country music star who is the elder sister of Crystal Gayle (7) |
| REPINES | Laments taking critic the wrong way about point |
| LEAH | In the Old Testament, the first wife of Jacob and elder sister of Rachel, his second wife |
| CAROLINE | Elder sister of Prince Albert II of Monaco who has the title Princess of Hanover (8) |
| STHENO | Elder sister of the Gorgons Medusa and Euryale (6) |
| AUSTEN | Cassandra ___, painter and elder sister of the more famous Jane (6) |
| ISABELLA | Elder sister of the titular protagonist of Jane Austen's Emma (1815) (8) |
| MEG | Literary elder sister of Jo, Beth and Amy |
| ARABELLACHURCHILL | Elder sister of 1st Duke of Marlborough (8,9) |
| MIRIAM | Hebrew prophetess, elder sister of Moses and Aaron (6) |
| ERMA | Singer Franklin (and elder sister of Aretha) |
| BYATT | A.S. -, sister to Margaret Drabble |
| AGE | 'The ---', 1977 novel by Margaret Drabble (3,3) |
| ICE | 'The ---', 1977 novel by Margaret Drabble (3,3) |
| ICEAGE | 'The ---', 1977 novel by Margaret Drabble (3,3) |
| MARGARET | Elder sister of Henry VIII, married to James IV of Scotland from 1503 to 1513 (8) |
| TUDOR | Elder sister of Henry VIII, married to James IV of Scotland from 1503 to 1513 (5) |
| MIDDLEGROUND | The ____, a 1980 novel by Margaret Drabble, its central character a journalist called Kate Armstrong |
| ETHEL | Elder sister of William in Just William (5) |
