| LAMPARD | Terry, celebrated angler, film-maker, author, died 2013 (7) |
| ANGER | Kenneth --, US film-maker, author of 'Hollywood Babylon' (5) |
| ELLEN | --- Terry, celebrated Shakespearean actress |
| BRUCEASHBY | Legendary carper and rod builder, died 2013 (*he buys crab) (5,5) |
| BRUCE | --- Ashby legendary carper and rod builder, died 2013 (5) |
| SUSPEND | American writer died after second stay (7) |
| SHERATON | Thomas ?, furniture maker; author of The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book |
| HARPERLEE | To Kill a Mockingbird author died (6,3) |
| EXPEND | Pay out where former author died |
| SPEND | Second author died in pass |
| MOBYDICK | Classic novel which was a failure when published in 1851 and out of print when the author died in 1891 (4,4) |
| EXPENDED | Spent former writer died before his boss? (8) |
| OBRIEN | Irish writer died: that was regretted by French singer |
| SUSPENDS | Delays caused when writer died during break |
| INSCRIBED | Permanently marked when fashionable writer died (9) |
| DANTE | Writer died climbing mountain |
| ALDOUSHUXLEY | Which English novelist and short-story writer died the same day as John F Kennedy? (6,6) |
| EMERALD | Film maker and director who played Camilla in The Crown (7,7) |
| FENNELL | Film maker and director who played Camilla in The Crown (7,7) |
| GILLIAM | Terry _, Monty Python animator and film maker (7) |
