| INSECTPLAY | The ?, 1922 Karel and Josef Capek stage work produced in the US as The World We Live In (6,4) |
| SANDMARTIN | Brown and white songbird known in North America as the bank swallow |
| DISCOURAGE | Make gloomy record on the period we live in (10) |
| FRANZKAFKA | Novelist with two protagonists named simply K. and Josef K. |
| CAPEK | "The World We Live In" playwright |
| AGENTLEMANOF | And 8 1910 P G Wodehouse novel first published in the US as The Intrusion of Jimmy (1,9,2,7) |
| NOONEELSE | "We'll build a world of our own that ... can share; All our sorrows we'll leave far behind us there; And I know you will find there'll be peace of mind; When we live in a world of our own" (2-3,4) |
| LEISURE | 1910 P G Wodehouse novel first published in the US as The Intrusion of Jimmy (1,9,2,7) |
| PEREGRINE | Falcon formerly known in the US as the duck hawk (9) |
| NYE | Bill _, known in the US as "the Science Guy" (3) |
| HARLEQUIN | ___duck, seabird also known in the USA as the lords and ladies (9) |
| DIVER | Duck-like aquatic bird of the genus Gavia commonly known in North America as the loon (5) |
| IDEA | The ?, 1922 stage play by Noel Coward |
| HAIRYAPE | The ?, 1922 Broadway stage play by Eugene O'Neill |
| NKJEMISIN | Afrofuturist author who wrote "The World We Make" |
| YOUNG | The ?, 1922 stage play by Noel Coward |
| ENDING | "Though we live in a world that dreams of ... / that always seems about to give in" (B Kennelly) |
| CATHEDRAL | The ?, 1922 novel by Hugh Walpole (9) |
| GARDENPARTY | The ?, 1922 short story collection by Katherine Mansfield (6,5) |
| AWORLD | "I know you will find there'll be peace of mind; When we live in ... of our own," sang The Seekers ( |
