| BEGONIA | Pray working gets the writer a flower (7) |
| IMAGINE | Pretend the writer's a machine with energy (7) |
| STIFFER | Frets, if working gets harder (7) |
| MAFIOSO | Gangster's way of working gets across Sofia somehow (7) |
| CRACKON | Expert working gets to proceed at speed (5,2) |
| ITERATE | Repeat a passage of writer, a teacher (7) |
| KEROUAC | Jack, American writer, a pioneer of the beat generation, d. 1969 (7) |
| PLAYPEN | Drama writer's A Pound for a Tot (7) |
| ESSAYER | Nonfiction writer - a trier! (7) |
| PENALTY | Fine writer - a lieutenant, unknown (7) |
| FLEMING | Thriller writer a native of northern Belgium? (7) |
| NAIPAUL | Writer's a pain to reinterpret, university lecturer concludes (7) |
| WHEEN | Francis, the writer, a man about town? On the contrary (5) |
| ACRIMONY | The writer"A™s taken in by a sidekick - bitterness results |
| AMI | Radio the writer - a friend on the continent (3) |
| PENPALS | Writer's a hit on the rebound with long-distance buddies (3,4) |
| THOREAU | America writer a superhero: admirer releasing book |
| TEQUILA | Alcoholic drink: writer, a bit cut, will get stuck into brew |
| HISNIBS | This timeless writer's a self-important chap |
| IAGO | Play character gives the writer a turn (4) |
