| INKPOT | The source of a writer's material |
| INKWELL | One source of a writer's material |
| PENURY | Poverty of a writer at the close of the century (6) |
| EXAMEN | A detailed study of a writer's work, etc (6) |
| DULCIS | Prunus ___ is the source of a popular Christmas nut (6) |
| PERSON | Anybody can be the source of a quiet snore! (6) |
| EPONYM | The source of a given name turns me into a small horse |
| AUTHOR | Ruth meets a good all-rounder in the form of a writer (6) |
| OEUVRE | What is the total body of work of a writer or artist? (6) |
| STERNE | Ernest has the makings of a writer (6) |
| TALESE | Author of "A Writer's Life" |
| EDITOR | Rewriter of a writer's writings |
| BELLOW | Carrying voice of a writer (6) |
| INBULK | Large amounts of writer's material covers key university (2,4) |
| INKCAP | Fungus makes writer's material go one better (6) |
| DINKUM | Upsetting allegations about writer's material could be genuine |
| 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) |
| DYERSROCKET | Eurasian plant in the genus Reseda once cultivated as the source of a bright yellow dye (5,6) |
