| LOCHAN | Small expanse of water Belloc handled, partly |
| SKIMMED | Girl going into small expanse of water took top off |
| FORESTRIES | Warning shots to protect small expanses of trees |
| REBEL | Rise of Hilaire Belloc (5) |
| HILAIRE | "The Bad Child's Book of Beasts" writer Belloc |
| ETRE | Scheme of Belloc, say, missing mass to be in Paris (4) |
| BLOODCELL | Old Belloc novel, one of many in circulation |
| GNU | Ruminant that's the subject of a Hilaire Belloc poem (3) |
| CAUTIONARYTALES | 1907 collection of stories for children by Hilaire Belloc (10,5) |
| LOCALE | It gave Belloc a lead to the scene of the event (6) |
| BORDERCOLLIE | Belloc and Rider Haggard kept old dog |
| COLLYWOBBLES | Owls by Belloc (anag) - severe gastroenteritis (12) |
| SALFORDSOUTH | Former parliamentary constituency whose MPs included the writer Hilaire Belloc |
| CAUTIONARY | ___ Tales, stories by Hilaire Belloc (10) |
| TIMEPASSES | “____, and we shall soon laugh no longer” (Belloc, The Path to Rome) |
| OCTOBER | Extract from Belloc to be read when the clocks change, perhaps (7) |
| LOCH | Expanse of water in Scotland with seven islands, on one of which Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned (4,5) |
| LEVEN | Expanse of water in Scotland with seven islands, on one of which Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned (4,5) |
| SEAS | Expanse of water providing a bit of summer entertainment (4) |
| MERE | Expanse of water providing a bit of summer entertainment (4) |
