| CALAMUS | Quill with which French author's penned a line |
| PLECTRUM | A pick or quill with which to pluck, strike or strum musical strings (8) |
| HARDLY | Only just a brief line famous author's penned |
| AMICE | Ecclesiastical wear with which French chum goes to church |
| ASTRINGENT | Penned a line to a hospital department about a caustic lotion (10) |
| IMAGINARY | Popular wise men penned a line that's unreal (9) |
| GRAY | Poet who formed a "quadruple alliance" at Eton College with Horace Walpole and two other fellows and later penned a notable elegy in a country churchyard (4) |
| ERIC | Forename under which George Newby penned a canon of travelogues, including A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush and A Small Place in Italy (4) |
| COPIER | Once a scribe or monk who penned a replica of a tome, now a laser device for duplicating in the office or home (6) |
| BEEFBOURGUIGNON | French meat stew for which Julia Child penned a popular recipe |
| DUMAS | Father and son, French authors |
| GLIDER | French author's right absorbing learner, a high-flier |
| ZOLAESQUE | Reminiscent of a certain French author's work |
| BEWICK | With a species of swan named after him, the wood engraver and naturalist who penned A History of British Birds (6) |
| CRADOCK | Nee Phyllis Nan Sortain Primrose Pechey, a flamboyant television chef who donned a ball-gown rather than an apron, popularised prawn cocktail and penned a number of novels, including her Castle Rising |
| ROTE | In a mechanical wav. penned a letter, one might say |
| OMEN | Sign French author's antihero put up (4) |
| RACINESS | French author's second risque character (8) |
| ROUST | Stir created by French author's introduction being cut |
| GLIDE | Skim French author's grasp of Latin |
