| RHYS | Pen name of the author of Wide Sargasso Sea and its companion piece Smile Please (4) |
| JEANRHYS | Author of the novels Wide Sargasso Sea and Good Morning, Midnight (4,4) |
| SAYCHEESE | Smile, please. (3,6) |
| JEAN | Author of Wide Sargasso Sea, ... Rhys |
| WEST | Pen name of the author of books including The Return of the Soldier, The Fountain Overflows, Sunflower and Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (4) |
| SAKI | Pen name of the author of When William Came and a parody of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland The Westminster Alice (4) |
| MARK | Pen name of the author of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (4,5) |
| ENID | First name of the author of the Famous Five and Secret Seven books who also wrote a number of Christmas stories for children (4) |
| EELS | Ray-finned fish that migrate between the rivers of Europe and the Sargasso Sea (4) |
| ANDY | Pen name of the author of Bravo Two Zero |
| TORI | First name of the author of the celebrity memoir Spelling It Like It Is |
| IDEA | Brainchild of someone of wide ability (4) |
| WALL | Everyone to the right of wide barrier (4) |
| WIDE | ___ Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys novel (4) |
| ILPENSEROSO | Poem by John Milton, a companion piece to L'Allegro, the title of which means The Thinker (2,9) |
| VELD | Type of wide-open, rural landscape in Southern Africa (4) |
| AGED | Got older section of wide-gauge coming back (4) |
| CORA | "Wild Sargasso Sea" aunt |
| THEPRIVATEEAR | Play by Peter Shaffer, a companion piece of The Public Eye (3,7,3) |
| ROAD | Barrel out of wide street |
