| OTTER | Tarka the ___, novel and film (5) |
| BAILEY | Rumpole of the_, novel and TV series about a barrister (6) |
| HENRY | Author of the novel Tarka the Otter (5) |
| OPERA | The Phantom Of The _, novel by French author, Gaston Leroux (5) |
| THELAMBS | The Silence Of ____, novel and film featuring Hannibal Lecter (3,5) |
| BARDO | Lincoln In The _, novel by US writer George Saunders which won the 2017 Booker Prize (5) |
| MOUTH | see 15dn, "The ___", novel by Joyce Cary featuring the character Gulley Jimson (6,5) |
| IDIOT | The ___, novel by Dostoevsky (5) |
| FLIES | Lord of the ___, novel by William Golding (5) |
| CHILDREN | The Railway ___, novel and film (8) |
| WILLIAMSON | Noted for his descriptions of nature, the countryside and of the First World War, author of the A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series and Tarka the Otter (10) |
| JEFFERIES | Naturalist noted for his depiction of rural life in works including Bevis, The Open Air and Tarka the Otter author Henry Williamson's favourite book The Story of My Heart (9) |
| HORSES | and 16dn, "The ___", novel by Joyce Cary featuring the character Gulley Jimson (6,5) |
| DIARYOF | "The ___", novel by the Grossmith brothers featuring the character Charles Pooter (5,2,1,6) |
| ISLANDERS | The ___; novel by Nikolai Leskov, Russian author of The Sealed Angel, The Enchanted Wanderer and Lefty (9) |
| WARDROBE | "The Lion, the Witch and the ___" Novel by C. S. Lewis (8) |
| ICESTORM | The ___, novel by Rick Moody and award-winning film by Ang Lee (3,5) |
| SEA | "The Old Man and the ___" (novel by Hemingway) |
| ECSTASY | The Agony and the ___, novel by Irving Stone (7) |
| USTINOV | Peter -; actor in a number of films including Spartacus and Death on the Nile who also narrated Tarka the Otter (7) |
