| FEARNECOTTON | Presenter and writer who hosts the Happy Place podcast (6,6) |
| ANGELA | Forename of a high-kicking horse-woman, journalist, presenter and writer who penned children's books about a bindweed-flower-hatted tree fairy she called Victoria Plum (6) |
| KENNETHTYNAN | English theatre critic and writer who described a critic as "a man who knows the way but can't drive the car" |
| STATEOFBLISS | Very happy "place" [read the Notepad for info about the hidden answers in this puzzle] |
| GASTOMLEROUX | French journalist and author who wrote the novel The Phantom Of The Opera (6,6) |
| CLAUDIAJONES | Activist and writer who's the subject of the Carole Boyce Davies book "Left of Karl Marx" |
| LEEEISENBERG | American editor and author who was editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine throughout the 1970s and 1980s and founding editor of Esquire UK in 1990 |
| RONNIEBARKER | Comedian, actor and writer who used the pen name Gerald Wiley (6,6) |
| PROMISEDLAND | Nerd's diploma (anag) a happy place (8,4) |
| CARRIEFISHER | American actress and writer who played Princess Leia in the Star Wars films (6,6) |
| QUENTINBLAKE | Artist and writer who illustrated many of Roald Dahl's books (7,5) |
| HANNAHGADSBY | Australian comedian and writer who has a comedy special on Netflix titled Nanette: 2 wds. |
| WYNDHAMLEWIS | English painter and author who was a cofounder of the Vorticist movement in art (7,5) |
| MISHALHUSAIN | British journalist, broadcaster and author who left Radio 4's Today programme last month after 11 years (6,6) |
| JACOBBRONOWSKI | Presenter and writer of the 1973 BBC series The Ascent of Man |
| ECO | Italian medievalist, semiotician and writer who penned the discourse on aesthetics On Beauty and several novels including Foucault's Pendulum and the international bestseller titled The Name of the Ro |
| OS | The Man Who Died Twice is the latest novel by this TV presenter and author. (5) |
| LYTTON | 1st Baron -; MP and author who coined the phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword"; a friend of Disraeli and Dickens who wrote The Last Days of Pompeii (6) |
| DELIA | ___ Smith, cookery presenter and writer (5) |
| GILES | _ Coren, TV presenter and writer (5) |
