| UMBERTOECO | What Italian literary critic and semiotician wrote The Name of the Rose, a best-selling murder mystery? |
| DESAUSSURE | Ferdinand ___, linguist and semiotician (1857-1913) (2,8) |
| WRITINGS | Extracts taken out of Italian literary works |
| ECO | Italian medievalist, semiotician and writer who penned the discourse on aesthetics On Beauty and several novels including Foucault's Pendulum and the international bestseller titled The Name of the Ro |
| NOISETTE | Hybrid of the China rose and the musk rose; a chocolate made with hazelnuts; a medallion of lamb; or, an espresso with a dash of milk (8) |
| CECIL | Literary critic and Oxford don who was a grandson of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, the Victorian statesman who served as prime minister three times (5) |
| BLUSH | Variety of rose; a pinkish-cream colour, a group of boys; or, a cloudy area on the surface of drying gloss paint (5) |
| EGLANTINE | Another name for the sweetbriar rose, a Eurasian wild rose with a fragrant essential oil used in per |
| AGOODNAME | Start of a quote by Lord Jeffery, 18th-century literary critic and judge |
| LISTED | Wrote the names of those who had a leaning towards? (6) |
| FERRARI | A rearing black horse is the logo of what Italian sports car manufacturer? (7) |
| SECCO | What Italian word describes dry wine and the art of painting on dry plaster'? (5) |
| BOURBON | A scented hybrid rose; a chocolate sandwich biscuit; or, a royal dynasty whose kings included Henry of Navarre and Louis XIV (7) |
| CHRISTMAS | - rose, a snow and frost resilient species of hellebore with radiant white blooms in the colder months, often planted to brighten the winter garden (9) |
| BED | A berth, bunk, palliasse, shakedown etc, such as Shakespeare's "second- best" example which he bequeathed to his wife; or, something thusly flat, such as a garden plot of roses, a layer of oysters or |
| NOD | "And giving a ___, up the chimney he rose" ("A Visit From St. Nicholas" excerpt) |
| BEETON | Mrs -; Victorian author who wrote a best-selling book on household management and cookery containing some 2,000 recipes by the age of 23 (6) |
| OCEAN | Film based on a best-selling novel, The Deep End of the _ (5) |
| MRSBEETON | English journalist and editor, born 1836, who wrote a best-selling Book of Household Management (3,6) |
| CALLIL | Carmen, Australian-born literary critic and founder of Virago Press (6) |
