| DIARISTS | Turns up, Sally got awards at university with a number of writers synonymous with the Daily Record (8) |
| MARGARETATWOOD | Prize-winning writer's novel got award at Rome (8,6) |
| ATUL | Actor Kulkarni; got awards for his roles in Hey Ram and Chandni Bar? |
| SWEPT | Cleaned up Sally who initially cried (5) |
| DEFOE | Characters in name of edition reviewed by author synonymous with Friday (5) |
| JOYCE | Great pleasure meeting Clare, a writer synonymous with Dubliners (5) |
| KEEPADIARY | Don't sell The Daily Record - is that what The Observer will do with The Daily News? (4,1,5) |
| ARCHAEOLOGY | One of the major innovators in modern Arab art, Dia al-Azzawi graduated from Baghdad University with a degree in this field, which put him in direct contact with ancient civilizations of the Middle Ea |
| FIRSTCHAPTER | To a degree, one of those at university with writer's block? That's one for the books! (5,7) |
| POSTMAN | According to Spooner, the majority of people criticise chap working with The Daily Mail |
| CROWN | The ___, royal drama up for more awards at the BAFTAS next week (5) |
| JOKER | Recipient of the Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix) and Best Original Score (Hildur Guonadottir) awards at the 2020 Oscars (5) |
| MAYAMOORE | Player who won two Naismith Awards at UConn and the WNBA MVP Award with the Minnesota Lynx in 2014: 2 wds. |
| BREANNASTEWART | Player who won three Naismith Awards at UConn and the WNBA MVP Award with the Seattle Storm in 2018: 2 wds. |
| MEAD | Beth ---, England footballer who won the Golden Boot and Player of the Tournament awards at UEFA Women's Euro 2022 (4) |
| DICTIONARY | Tonic mixture appearing in "The Daily Record" - my regular source of information (10) |
| USERNAME | Upsets English Fellow and most of the rest at university with online identity (8) |
| COMEDY | Subject of the former Perrier Awards at the Edinburgh Festival (6) |
| MUMBAI | Greek character gets award at university the first in The City? (6) |
| FIRSTISSUE | Award at university on very thin paper that's needs no introduction to the publishing world - it's a collector's item (5,5) |
