| REID | Poet who edited Selected Letters of Ted Hughes and wrote books or collections including A Scattering, The Song of Lunch and Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs (4) |
| HEANEY | Poet who worked with Ted Hughes and Barrie Cooke and translated from Middle English "The Names of the Hare" (6) |
| WILSON | Sir Angus -, author of The Old Men at the Zoo and short story collections including A Bit Off the Map and Such Darling Dodos (6) |
| SMITH | Stevie -; author of poetry collections including A Good Time Was Had By All and Not Waving But Drowning (5) |
| DRUMSET | Collection including a snare and hi-hat, maybe |
| ARABIAN | - Nights; folk tale collection including a series about Sindbad the Sailor (7) |
| FOR | Favouring just three selected letters (3) |
| YOUNG | Poet who wrote collections including The White Blackbird, Speak to the Earth and The Green Man and prose-study of rare British wild flora A Prospect of Flowers (5) |
| HUDSON | Naturalist and ornithologist who wrote books including Green Mansions, Far Away and Long Ago and A Shepherd's Life (6) |
| JAMES | US-born British novelist who wrote books including The Portrait of a Lady, What Maisie Knew, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl (5) |
| GRIGSON | Poet and founder-editor of New Verse who wrote books including Wild Flowers in Britain, An English Farmhouse and Shell Country Book (7) |
| LARKIN | Author of poetry collections including The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows; or, the name of a rural family created by H. E. Bates (6) |
| MOORE | Sculptor noted for his monumental organically shaped bronzes; or, a conservationist from Tewkesbury who wrote books on a rural theme including the Brensham Trilogy (5) |
| LAWSON | Journalist-turned-cook who wrote books including How to Eat, How to Be a Domestic Goddess and Feast (6) |
| LAROUSSE | French lexicographer who edited and co-compiled a 15-volume dictionary and founded a publishing house noted for a tome on gastronomy (8) |
| DIASPORA | So rapid a scattering of Jews of the world outside of Israel (8) |
| CLARE | Poet whose descriptions of country life have been published in collections including The Midsummer Cushion and The Rural Muse (5) |
| BINDERS | Folders fitted with metal rings for holding loose sheets of paper or collections of magazines (7) |
| DIVANS | From the Persian meaning "benches", low backless sofas; headboard- and footboard-less beds resembling such seats; or, collections of poems |
| JAMESON | Journalist and broadcaster who edited the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Star and News Of The World in the 1970s and '80s (5,7) |
