| CRONIN | Scottish physician who wrote Hatter's Castle, The Stars Look Down and The Citadel, his novel Country Doctor was adapted into Dr Finlay's Casebook (6) |
| FLEMING | Scottish physician who discovered penicillin (7) |
| JAMAICAINN | Novel country pub (7,3) |
| SMITH | Author of I Capture the Castle, The Hundred and One Dalmatians and The Starlight Barking who wrote about her childhood in Look Back with Love (5) |
| GARTH | Courtyard within a cloister; or, the physician who wrote the 1699 burlesque poem The Dispensary (5) |
| VIDOR | King ?, Best Director Oscar nominee for War and Peace and The Citadel (5) |
| MILE | Royal -; thoroughfare which is the site of Edinburgh Castle, the Palace of Holyroodhouse and the Scottish Parliament Building (4) |
| FALMOUTH | Overlooked by the coastal fortress Pendennis Castle, the Cornish town where Kenneth Grahame conceived the idea for The Wind in the Willows (8) |
| ARBUTHNOT | John ___, Scottish physician and writer known for a 1712 satirical pamphlet featuring the character John Bull (9) |
| ANDREASVESALIUS | Flemish physician who wrote the first proper textbook of human anatomy (7,8) |
| ROBERT | - the Bruce; believed to have been born and raised in what was Turnberry Castle, the king of Scots depicted by Chris Pine in the film Outlaw King (6) |
| NIGHY | Actor in films including I Capture the Castle, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Scrabble drama Sometimes Always Never and The Bookshop (5) |
| ARTHURCONANDOYLE | Scottish physician and writer who created Sherlock Holmes |
| UNFINISHED | A French and Finnish report by writer of The Castle, the famous Kafkaesque one, in a literary sense (10) |
| LOWERYOURSIGHTS | Look down and have aims that are less ambitious (5,4,6) |
| NOSTRADAMUS | Astrologer and physician who wrote prophetic quatrains |
| BOWLES | Paul, US author of the novels Let It Come Down and The Sheltering Sky (6) |
| DROOPS | Hangs down and the top end gets caught in the swing-doors (6) |
| NORTHWALES | Gwrych Castle, the location for I'm A Celeb in 2020 and 2021, is in this part of the UK (5,5) |
| OPENEYED | Old writer - look down and be amazed (4-4) |
