| EVELYNWAUGH | The author of A Handful of Dust (6,5) |
| EVELYN | Forename of the author of A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited (6) |
| ALFRED | One of a handful of Smiths in the Hall of Fame |
| WAUGH | Schoolmaster-turned-satirical novelist who penned A Handful of Dust and the book subtitled The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (5) |
| LAST | Tony, hero of the Evelyn Waugh novel A Handful of Dust (4) |
| GEOMANCY | Divination from the configuration of a handful of earth or random dots (8) |
| TSELIOT | He wrote "I will show you fear in a handful of dust" |
| ELIOT | Poet from whom Waugh got his novel title "A Handful of Dust" |
| STURRIDGE | Charles ___, English screenwriter, producer and director whose films include A Handful of Dust and Where Angels Fear to Tread |
| HARPSICHORD | Instrument producing angelic accompaniment is back with a handful of notes (11) |
| OSBERT | A forename of the author of A Place of One's Own who is depicted in a painting by John Singer Sargent with his parents and his siblings Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell (6) |
| BEETON | Mrs -; name by which the author of a book of household management containing a large section of reci |
| ENID | First name of the author of a series of adventure books for children beginning with Five on a Treasure Island (4) |
| WISP | A handful of hay or straw; a small broom; a twisted bunch used as a torch; a strand of hair; a streak of smoke; or, one of slight or delicate stature (4) |
| BARSTOW | Surname of the author of "A Kind of Loving" |
| BEERNUT | One of a handful at a bar |
| IMP | Kid who's a bit of a handful |
| LEMONYSNICKET | Pen name of the author of "A Series of Unfortunate Events": 2 wds. |
| DIONYSIUS | ---------of Halicarnassus, Greek historian and rhetorician, the author of a history of Rome (9) |
| ROGET | Surname of the author of a Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (5) |
