| BEETON | Victorian author of a book on household management illustrated with coloured engravings (6) |
| GOULD | Ornithologist who learned taxidermy at Windsor Castle and published monographs illustrated with coloured plates including his five-volume Birds of Great Britain (5) |
| AUTHOR | A writer of a book, article or document (6) |
| MILLIE | Author of a book "As Dictated to Barbara Bush" |
| COMICS | Magazines illustrated with strip cartoons, such as those that inspired Roy Lichtenstein; or, humorists (6) |
| BORROW | What one may do at the library with the works of a Victorian author? |
| SMILES | Samuel ____, Scottish Victorian author noted for his book Self-Help that promoted thrift (6) |
| MRSBEETON | Victorian writer on household management (3,6) |
| DARWIN | Charles ****** . Victorian author on evolution (6) |
| ARTHUR | Victorian author who created the Sherlock Holmes stories (6,5,5) |
| MENAGE | Fellows mature in household management (6) |
| LYTTON | Victorian author's only novel, about abstainer (6) |
| READER | Victorian author's given queen an academic book |
| RUSKIN | Sport to hide Victorian writer on art (6) |
| GEORGE | --- Eliot, Victorian author |
| GEORGEMACDONALD | Scottish Victorian author of The Princess and the Goblin (6,9) |
| EDWARDLEAR | Limerick writer and author of A Book Of Nonsense (6,4) |
| JOHNLECARRE | Author of a book whose title consists of parts of answers to asterisked clues (11) |
| UTENSILS | Kitchenalia with Victorian forms illustrated in Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (8) |
| MEREDITH | Victorian author of Diana of the Crossways (8) |
