| JOHNBETJEMAN | Private room, with Elizabeth meeting Jeremy, an author of poems (4,8) |
| DENOTE | Mean to have a private room with a broken toe (6) |
| JOHNCONSTABLE | Landscape painter's private room with PC |
| CLOSETO | Small private room with nothing near |
| LETTERWRITER | He corresponds with an author of character (6-6) |
| PITCHPERFECT | 2012 film with Elizabeth Banks as a cappella competition judge Gail Abernathy-McKadden: 2 wds. |
| POWERRANGERS | 2017 film with Elizabeth Banks as archenemy Rita Repulsa: 2 wds. |
| PORGYANDBESS | Opera lovers' wild party, with Elizabeth on piano |
| IAN | Forename of an author of 17 novels, including one, on the theme of atonement, that was adapted into a movie starring Keira Knightley (3) |
| MEADE | Honey-wine-like name of an author of children's stories including A World of Girls and Wild Kitty (5) |
| PIERRELOTI | Pseudonym of Louis Marie-Julien Viaud, an author of exotic novels based on his life as a naval officer |
| IVO | ---Tennant, an author of cricket books (3) |
| CLARE | Known as the Peasant Poet, author of Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery and The Shepherds Calendar who spent his last 26 years in an asylum (5) |
| TENNYSON | Alfred ?, author of poems The Lady of Shalott and Voices in the Mist (8) |
| RILKE | German poet and author of Poems From The Book Of Hours, Rainer Maria ... |
| KEATS | John ?, author of poems The Eve of St Agnes and Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| FANTASIST | A daydreamer, rainbow-chaser or wool-gatherer; or, a word for an author of stories based on imaginary worlds, magic, mythical beings etc (9) |
| SHELLEY | Author of poems including To a Skylark and The Cloud who eloped with Mary Wollstonecraft's daughter and later drowned aged |
| THOMAS | Author of poems including April, Birds' Nests and Celandine whose book In Pursuit of Spring describes his London to Somerset bike ride (6) |
| HENRYLAWSON | Australian author of poems and short stories,1867-1922; park in Drummoyne (5,6) |
