| COLDCOMFORTFARM | Stella Gibbons novel featuring Aunt Ada Doom (4,7,4) |
| STELLAGIBBONS | Author whose characters included Aunt Ada Doom and the Starkadder family (6,7) |
| THEPOBBLE | Poem by Edward Lear featuring Aunt Jobiska's Runcible Cat (3,6,3,3,2,4) |
| WHOHASNOTOES | Poem by Edward Lear featuring Aunt Jobiska's Runcible Cat (3,6,3,3,2,4) |
| DOOM | Aunt Ada, character in Cold Comfort Farm (4) |
| WOOD | Bowl dropped where Ada Doom saw something nasty (4) |
| AUNT | Ada Doom to Flora Poste, for example (4) |
| POSTE | Flora, central character in the Stella Gibbons novel Cold Comfort Farm (5) |
| FLORA | Heroine of 1932 Stella Gibbons novel Cold Comfort Farm (5,5) |
| FARM | Cold Comfort ___ , Stella Gibbons novel (4) |
| FLORAPOSTE | Heroine of 1932 Stella Gibbons novel Cold Comfort Farm |
| COLD | _ Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons novel (4) |
| COLDCOMFORT | ___ Farm, Stella Gibbons novel (4,7) |
| STARKADDER | Judith --, a character in Stella Gibbon's novel 'Cold Comfort Farm' (10) |
| ADADOOM | Owner of Cold Comfort Farm in the novel of that name by Stella Gibbons (3,4) |
| WEBB | Novelist whose books inspired Stella Gibbons to write Cold Comfort Farm (4) |
| NASTY | 'Something ___ in the woodshed' (Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm (1932), repeated) (5) |
| SUNSETSONG | Lewis Grassic Gibbon novel, first part of ' A Scots Quair' trilogy (6,4) |
| SHED | A hut, lean-to, small building etc for bikes, cattle, firewood, hobbies, garden storage or, according to Stella Gibbons, "something nasty" (4) |
| APESOFTHEPLANET | Gorillas, chimpanzees, gibbons, orang-utans, etc. |
