| LARKIN | Poet, novelist, jazz critic, librarian and editor of The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse whose collection The Less Deceived includes Church Going (6) |
| ARTHUR | First name of the Cornish novelist and literary critic known as "Q" who was a friend of Daphne du Maurier and edited The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 (6) |
| GIOIA | Jazz critic and music historian Ted who goes by "The Honest Broker" |
| LURIE | Pulitzer-winning professor who penned Don't Tell the Grown-ups, The War Between the Tates, books for children and also edited The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (5) |
| NAT | Jazz critic Hentoff |
| MURRAY | Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary depicted by Mel Gibson in The Professor and the Madman (6) |
| ADRIANMARTIN | Which film critic, and editor of the online film journal Rouge, wrote about the Mad Max movies in 20 |
| GREELEY | US journalist and editor of the New York Tribune which championed the abolition of Slavery (7) |
| MITFORD | Author of The Pursuit of Love and editor of Noblesse Oblige in which she included a glossary of "U" and "non-U" usage (7) |
| ROHANRIVETT | Which outspoken author and editor of the Adelaide paper The News was tried for seditious libel after |
| BRICK | An adobe or clinker of clay, such as any one of the flettons forming much of 20th-century London; or, a Delft vase, loaf of bread, old-fashioned mobile phone, piece of Lego or wooden toy block, thus s |
| ERSKINE | - May; parliamentary rule book that takes its name from the former assistant librarian and later clerk of the House of Commons who wrote it (7) |
| ONIONS | Charles Talbut -; lexicographer who was the fourth editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (6) |
| DANA | Charles Anderson ___, owner and editor of the New York Sun, 1868-97 |
| PICASSO | One of the greatest artists of 20th-century Europe, he was a cocreator of Cubism |
| JAMESMURRAY | Who was the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary? |
| DIDEROT | Denis ___, French enlightenment philosopher and editor of the Encyclopedie (7) |
| KIOWA | The ___ Six (group of twentieth-century artists from Oklahoma) |
| DONALDBRADMAN | The greatest batsman of twentieth century cricket (6,7) |
| DURRELL | Surname of 20th Century naturalist Gerald and his brother, novelist Lawrence (7) |
