| NIKCOHN | Rock music journalist; author of the novels Need and King Death (3,4) |
| COHN | Nik ?, rock music journalist; author of novels Need and King Death (4) |
| PACKARD | Vance ?, US journalist; author of 1957 book The Hidden Persuaders (7) |
| SETTING | Novel need |
| DRESDEN | Needs and is ordered to go to a doctor in Germany (7) |
| ADIE | Kate -. journalist; author of 2002 autobiography The Kindness Of Strangers (4) |
| MIRRORWRITER | "XAM UOY HTIW" - Journalist author of Jabberwocky? (6,6) |
| SECKERSON | Music journalist and presenter of Stage and Screen on BBC Radio 3 |
| REGICIDE | See with your eyes the greed which caused the king's death (8) |
| HEADLIGHT | Night driving need, and what can go with the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| CANOPENER | Soup preparer's need, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers |
| ILAN | Doubled, the start of a beautiful blessing from Ta'anit 5b "___, ___, bamah avarechecha?" It is a parable of one walking through the desert who finds a tree that gives him all he needs, and then says, |
| INXS | Band with the hits "What You Need" and "Need You Tonight" |
| MAKER | He provides what the strikers need and encourages the unions! (10)) |
| MATCH | He provides what the strikers need and encourages the unions! (10) |
| VICTIMCENTRED | Considering the needs and wants of the harmed person first |
| NEWSHOUND | Hour's seized by fresh type of music journalist |
| ELMS | Robert, English music journalist and radio presenter (4) |
| FRAME | Pete ___, music journalist best known for his Rock Family Trees |
| KATTY | - Kay, journalist, author and BBC special correspondent (5) |
