| KERMODE | See picture clue: Film critic and TV presenter Mark ----- (7) |
| CLIVEJAMES | Australian critic and TV presenter whose first book of autobiography was Unreliable Memoirs |
| CRADOCK | Fanny, restaurant critic and TV chef born in 1909 (7) |
| TERANTINO | American film-maker, actor, film critic and author, Quentin _ (9) |
| ANNASMITH | Film critic and host of the Girls On Film podcast (4,5) |
| ADRIANMARTIN | Which film critic, and editor of the online film journal Rouge, wrote about the Mad Max movies in 20 |
| RAYNER | Jay ___, food critic and TV cooking judge (6) |
| ROSS | Jonathan _, film critic and chat show host (4) |
| GOOLDEN | Wine critic and former Food & Drink presenter, Jilly ------- (7) |
| THOREAU | American social critic and novel author touring East (7) |
| DIDEROT | Denis - - -, French philosopher, art critic and writer during the Enlightenment (7) |
| HAZLITT | William, early 19th-century English writer, an esteemed critic and essayist (7) |
| DRABBLE | Margaret -, author, biographer, critic and sister of A. S. Byatt (7) |
| SITWELL | We still represented an English critic and writer of verse (7) |
| STEINER | George *****. literary critic and essayist born in 1929 (7) |
| PLANNER | Line adopted by harsh critic and man of ideas? (7) |
| KNOCKER | Critic and attention-seeker (7) |
| ASBYATT | Literary critic and Booker Prize-winning author of Possession (1,1,5) |
| MARCUSE | Herbert ___, German-American social critic and political theorist born in 1898 |
| MELLY | George ___, art critic and jazz musician whose volumes of autobiography include Rum, Bum and Concertina and Owning Up (5) |
