| GOLDSMITH | Poet, playwright and forger (9) |
| ALEXANDER | Russian poet, playwright and novelist of the Romantic era, _ Pushkin (9) |
| WILDE | Oscar -; poet, playwright and novelist whose character Lady Bracknell has been portrayed by Edith Evans and Judi Dench (5) |
| BRECHT | Bertolt --, German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer (6) |
| CHATTERTON | Thomas ___, English poet and forger who committed suicide in 1770 (10) |
| PUSHKIN | Russian romantic poet, playwright and author of Eugene Onegin, Aleksandr ... |
| GOETHE | Johann Wolfgang von -; German poet, playwright and novelist who wrote Faust (6) |
| ELIOT | T S ___, American poet, playwright, and literary critic whose works include The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock |
| SMITH | Adam, economist and forger |
| BLACKSMITH | Angry wife-murderer and forger |
| COPYRIGHT | Forger attempts to do it and break it (9) |
| IRONSMITH | Forger makes this minor change (9) |
| LOCKSMITH | Engage a forger as keyman (9) |
| HORSESHOE | Work of a forger, bent but possibly lucky (9) |
| LADYSMITH | Female forger was surrounded in south africa (9) |
| WORDSMITH | Writer's assurance is backed by forger (9) |
| GUNSMITHS | The forger intercepts the experts, people who could deal with colts (9) |
| READYMADE | Ideally suited tag line for forger? (5-4) |
| MAKEANOTE | What a forgetful forger should do? (4,1,4) |
| OSSIEDAVIS | US actor, director, poet, playwright, author and social activist who played Da Mayor in Spike Lee's 1989 film Do the Right Thing |
