| BACKDATED | Pretended to have written earlier, as a letter |
| MADEOUT | Pretended to have written a cheque, for instance? (4,3) |
| PANACEA | A canape prepared earlier as a cure for all things (7) |
| PRE | "Before" or"earlier" as a prefix |
| SHEEP | Dickens' Uriah succeeded earlier as a supplier of wool (5) |
| KEATS | Commemorated in Shelley's Adonais, poet said to have written Ode to a Nightingale from under a plum tree in his garden (5) |
| PIECERATE | Judge composition written earlier and suggest remuneration according to quantity produced |
| POSED | Pretended to have worked as a model (5) |
| ALPHA | The first letter that Sophocles was known to have written (5) |
| AFORESAID | Mentioned earlier as help about a vocal number? |
| EARDRUM | Instrument getting attention earlier as an aid to hearing (7) |
| CIRCULAR | A word meaning "round", hence something, such as a letter or a notice, that goes around to a ring of people (8) |
| CAPITALISE | Half praise first letter written earlier demonstrating how they would gain an advantage |
| BACON | British painter Francis, who was a descendant of the man some still hold to have written Shakespeare |
| JAMESI | Shakespeare is believed to have written King Lear during a plague during the reign of what king? |
| TOBACCO | Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of the Various ____s is a monograph that Sherlock Holmes claimed to have written |
| ETHEREALLY | In exquisite style if truth be told, English article written earlier |
| DISCLOSE | Reveal it when they mislay record, for instance, written earlier |
| STIMULATED | Pretended to have time to be excited (10) |
| PSYCH | Former TV series about a detective who pretended to have ESP |
