| VIRGINIAWOOLF | Which British novelist and feminist essayist was a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group? (8,5) |
| VOYSEY | A central figure of the Arts and Crafts movement whose textile design Birds of Many Climes depicts avians including blue tanager, canary, finch, Japanese robin, king bird-of-paradise and yellow-tufted |
| GAY | "Bad Feminist" essayist Roxane ___ |
| DORIS | In 2007, which British novelist who was raised in Southern Rhodesia became the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, at age 88? (5,7) |
| LESSING | In 2007, which British novelist who was raised in Southern Rhodesia became the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, at age 88? (5,7) |
| LAMB | The essayist was a gentle creature (4) |
| ELIA | This essayist was a Lamb |
| LEWIS | Which British novelist had the first names Clive Staples? (5) |
| SIMONE | French existentialist novelist and feminist whose works include Le deuxieme sexe (6,2,8) |
| DEBEAUVOIR | French existentialist novelist and feminist whose works include Le deuxieme sexe (6,2,8) |
| WINIFRED | -- Holtby, 1898-1935, novelist and feminist (8) |
| SIMONEDEBEAUVOIR | French existentialist philosopher, novelist and feminist (6,2,8) |
| RUSSELLSQUARE | Open space at the centre of the Bloomsbury area of London (7,6) |
| GRANT | Owner of Charleston Farmhouse with Vanessa Bell who was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group set with other creatives including Virginia Woolf and his cousin Lytton Strachey (5) |
| VANESSABELL | British painter who was a member of the Bloomsbury group and sister of Virginia Woolf |
| ANN | Jo ___ Robinson, civil rights activist who was a central figure in the Montgomery bus boycott |
| NORTH | US Army officer who was a central figure in the 1980s Iran-Contra Affair (5) |
| BELL | Sharing her forename with the Latin epithet of the painted lady butterfly, an artist whose portrait The Memoir Club depicts prominent members of the Bloomsbury Group, including her sister, Virginia Wo |
| CARRINGTON | Dora, British painter who was a member of the Bloomsbury Group (10) |
| RICKSHAW | Form of transport which was a central part of a Matt Baker Children in Need fundraising challenge |