| JOHNBETJEMAN | Poet Laureate, who wrote that Slough 'isn't fit for humans now' (4,8) |
| SLOUGH | Shed that isn't fit for humans now? (6) |
| STALLS | Refuses to move from accommodation not fit for humans (6) |
| DOUGLASADAMS | Sci-fi writer who wrote that the answer to the universe is the number 42 |
| TONIMORRISON | US Nobel laureate who wrote the novels Sula and Jazz |
| COLLEYCIBBER | Actor-manager, playwright and poet laureate who was the chief target of Alexander Pope's satirical poem The Dunciad (6,6) |
| ARTESIANWELL | Polluted area isn't fit to be a source of water (8,4) |
| NAHUM | First name of the Poet Laureate who wrote The History of King Lear (5) |
| CECIL | British Poet Laureate who wrote mystery novels under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, ... Day-Lewis |
| BRIDGES | Robert ___, Poet Laureate who wrote The Testament of Beauty (7) |
| JOHNMASEFIELD | Poet Laureate who wrote Salt-Water Ballads (4,9) |
| TATE | See 58 (0) Poet laureate who wrote a version of King Lear witha happy ending (5,4) |
| ADALIMON | Poet laureate who wrote The Hurting Kind |
| STEEPLECHASE | Race for humans or horses (12) |
| EUGENEIONESCO | Frenchman who wrote that novel in English once EU goes for? |
| SERENAWILLIAMS | Legendary athlete who wrote that "evolving away from tennis" was "the hardest thing that [she] could ever imagine" (August, 2022) |
| MARX | Thinker who wrote that "a spectre is haunting Europe" |
| AGASSI | Autobiographer who wrote that tennis is "the loneliest sport" |
| ANON | We don't know who wrote that body of work: initial unseen (4) |
| ADAM | Smith who wrote that landlords "love to reap where they never sowed" |
