| SLESSOR | Which influential Australian poet and journalist wrote Five Visions of Captain Cook (1931) |
| MAUNALOA | Peak east of Captain Cook |
| BAY | Botany ___, the site of Captain Cook's Australian landing. |
| EWERS | Australian poet and novelist |
| FIJI | Part of Captain Cook's explorations |
| BANJO | - Paterson, Australian poet and author (5) |
| EDNAWALLING | Which influential landscape designer wrote for Australian Home Beautiful in the 1920s, and designed a garden for her boss, Sir Keith Murdoch, at Cruden Farm? (4,7) |
| DOUGLAS | Lord Alfred _, poet and journalist, best known as the lover of Oscar Wilde (7) |
| VIRGINIAWOOLF | Which influential 20th-century modernist wrote the essay A Room of One's Own (1929) |
| HARDBACK | Book by poet and journalist Spooner's mentioned (8) |
| AUTHORED | 'A superior and thunderous character,' journalist wrote (8) |
| ALAMODE | Fashionable place in Texas journalist wrote up (1,2,4) |
| OBIT | Sadly, a journalist wrote this old piece (4) |
| HARWOOD | Which Australian poet is commemorated in the name of the prize awarded annually by island magazine and won in 2025 by Georgina Woods? (7) |
| EDITH | Late children's author who wrote Five Children And It, _ Nesbit (5) |
| PATERSON | Australian poet who wrote the country's unofficial national anthem, 'Waltzing Matilda', in 1895 (5,8) |
| SATIE | Erik ___ , French composer, who wrote five pieces he called 'furniture music', d. 1925 (5) |
| ENDEAVOUR | Ship which Captain Cook took command of in 1768 (9) |
| ENVOI | I've no confusion as to what the poet finally wrote (5) |
| RONA | Jaffe who wrote "Five Women" |
