| PELHAM | Prime minister from 1743-54; Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel; or, a type of bit (6) |
| THUMB | Tom -; folklore character; a type of bit for a horse; or, another name for bird's-foot trefoil (5) |
| RIENZI | Opera by Richard Wagner based on a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (6) |
| VELVET | Flower painter Jan Brueghel the Elder's nickname; a character in an Enid Bagnold novel; or, a close-cut pile textile traditionally sold by a mercer (6) |
| LYTTON | Edward Bulwer--; author of Pelham and The Last Days of Pompeii (6) |
| EUGENEARAM | English murderer celebrated in a ballad by Thomas Hood and a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| HENRYPELHAM | British Whig statesman who served as prime minister from 1743 to 1754 (5,6) |
| PEN | Enclosure such as a dry-stone sheepfold; female swan; or, a device mightier than the sword, according to writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton (3) |
| POMPEII | The Last Days of ___, novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (7) |
| KNEBWORTH | --- House, mansion in Hertfordshire, the former home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (9) |
| KNEBWORTHHOUSE | Tudor mansion in Hertfordshire, home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (9,5) |
| IONE | Heroine in The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| PROLOGUE | Meaning "before word", a prefatory speech or section as an introduction to a play, poem or novel; or, a time trial before a stage race in road cycling (8) |
| SWORD | 'The pen is mightier than the ___' (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, 1839) (5) |
| ARAM | "Eugene ___" (1832 Bulwer-Lytton novel) |
| LEILA | Bulwer-Lytton novel |
| ROMAN | Plain upright type as distinguished from italic and Gothic; a novel; or, a medieval romance (5) |
| VRIL | Edward Bulwer-Lytton's word for life force or energy in The Coming Race, that survives in the name of a brand of meat extract, used for beef tea (4) |
| JUMP | Descent by a parachutist; a Jilly Cooper novel; or, a sudden rise (4) |
| CHANDLER | Author of the Philip Marlowe novels; or, a maker of candles or soap (8) |
