| INKPOT | The source of a writer's material |
| INKWELL | One source of a writer's material |
| FRUIT | From "enjoyment of harvest", a word for an acorn, berry, drupe, grain, hesperidium, nut, pome or other edible part of a plant, whose other Latin sense, "profit, value", is the source of a word meaning |
| EIDER | Type of sea duck, the female of which is the source of a down used for quilts, etc (5) |
| HEAD | The source of a river; top of a page; or, a school principal (4) |
| GAMBOGE | A gum resin used as the source of a yellow pigment and as a purgative |
| SWINE | The source of a bit of spam and hock perhaps |
| PENURY | Poverty of a writer at the close of the century |
| EXAMEN | A detailed study of a writer's work, etc (6) |
| READINGGLASS | It gives the larger view of a writer's work |
| DYERSROCKET | Eurasian plant in the genus Reseda once cultivated as the source of a bright yellow dye (5,6) |
| SOUTHAFRICA | Country thought to be the source of a highly infectious variant of Covid-19 (5,6) |
| EPONYM | The source of a given name turns me into a small horse |
| MINARET | The source of a call to prayer leading to a change in raiment (7) |
| MOOSE | The source of a lower sound coming from the southeast (5) |
| TOLD | Was the source of a leak |
| REDBUSH | Plant that's the source of a caffeine-free tea |
| AMERICANPIE | Recipe mania may be the source of a popular song |
| DOWNSTREAM | Further from the source of a river (10) |
| DULCIS | Prunus ___ is the source of a popular Christmas nut (6) |
