| MACADAMIA | Surfacing with the writer, a nut! (9) |
| LINKLATER | Eric the writer's a connection to follow (9) |
| COCODEMER | Clown might start to break wild animal? What a nut! (4,2,3) |
| PARODISTS | Having taken a drop, sits drunkenly with the writers (9) |
| HAMMERING | Third-rate actor along with the writer call for noisy work |
| SCREWBALL | It's the action of a certain pitcher - the nut! (9) |
| ARCHIBALD | First name of the author A. J. Cronin |
| INSCRIBES | Shows he's in with the writers when he dedicates it to them |
| POETASTER | Sample provided by US writer, a writer of inferior verse (9) |
| LONDONZOO | England attraction where writer A.A. Milne's son Christopher Robin visited the popular from-canada-bear named Winnie: 2 wds. |
| MONTAIGNE | French writer, a gent, I fancy, beyond my French? (9) |
| APPENDAGE | Saw covering page by writer a secondary part (9) |
| WHEEN | Francis, the writer, a man about town? On the contrary (5) |
| ACRIMONY | The writer"A™s taken in by a sidekick - bitterness results |
| AMI | Radio the writer - a friend on the continent (3) |
| WILDGOOSE | Sentimentality beginning to surface in Irish writer; a flighty type (4,5) |
| IAGO | Play character gives the writer a turn (4) |
| BEGONIA | Pray working gets the writer a flower (7) |
| SOMEWHAT | Who cares about the writer a little? (8) |
| MAORI | Wander up to the writer, a New Zealander (5) |
