| DANTEAN | Reminiscent of work by the 14th-century author of "Inferno" |
| GEOFFREY | 14th-century author of The Canterbury Tales, _ Chaucer (8) |
| GAWAIN | - Poet; 14th-century author of Pearl, Patience and Cleanness whose real name remains unknown (6) |
| LANGLAND | Piers Plowman, a great example of English literature, is said to have been written by the 14th-century poet, William ___ (8) |
| UNDINE | Female water spirit conceived by the 14th-century Swiss alchemist Paracelsus; from Latin, 'little wave' (6) |
| DANTE | Italian writer of 'Inferno' |
| IDOL | Celeb's out of work, by the sound of it (4) |
| POOR | Inferior piece of work by the post office |
| SHEBA | The Arrival Of The Queen Of ---, work by Handel (5) |
| AIRRAID | Song - could be work by The Police or work of the B52s |
| BELLOC | Author of work by 10 with little piece of 10 and 25 (6) |
| MISCELLANY | Is part of monastery surrounded by a lot of work by various writers? (10) |
| ATOMICPILE | The result of heaps of work by nuclear scientists, no doubt (6,4) |
| EREWHON | Anagrammatic title of a satirical work by the Victorian author Samuel Butler |
| ETNA | Italian hothead upsetting Italian creator of inferno, blowing top (4) |
| ANOTHERFINEMESS | Hardy's description of inferno heat possibly (7,4,4) |
| SHELF | Shoal or sandbank creates no end of Inferno in Science Fiction (5) |
| EVERGREEN | Perennially popular retrospective piece of work by Donne, perhaps, during evening of poetry (9) |
| ALBANBERG | Surprisingly banal book with measure of work by student of Schoenberg (5,4) |
| SAND | George ___, 19th-century author of the novel Indiana (4) |
