| STURM | With 40- and 41-Across, 18th-century literary and musical movement |
| ROMANTIC | Artistic, literary and musical era popular in Europe towards the end of the 18th Century (8) |
| CASANOVA | Italian adventurer whose Memoires told of his many amorous encounters across 18th Century Europe |
| COOKS | With 40 and 41 Across, does overly creative accounting |
| AGOODNAME | Start of a quote by Lord Jeffery, 18th-century literary critic and judge |
| GILBLAS | Four-volume 18th-century literary classic |
| ROMANTICISM | Literary and artistic movement of the late 18th- and 19th-centuries with which Felix Mendelssohn, Percy Shelley and Eugene Delacroix are associated (11) |
| CANTERBURYTALES | Famously unfinished 14th-century literary work, with "The" |
| UBER | Ridesharing app with "XL" and "Select" options |
| BLOOMSBURYGROUP | Set of English literary and artistic luminaries whose members included Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey |
| BRONTE | Surname of a 19th-century literary family |
| BLOOMSBURY | & 18D Set of English literary and artistic luminaries whose members included Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey (10,5) |
| TATLER | The ?, British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709 |
| GUERNSEY | Island that spawned the Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (8) |
| POTATOPEEL | The Guernsey Literary and ___ ___ Society, book by Mary Ann Shaffer (6,4) |
| MANDARIN | The standard literary and official form of Chinese (8) |
| PIE | 2018 drama film, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel - Society (3) |
| POTATO | Our star's movie: The Guernsey Literary and - Peel Pie Society |
| BOOKTOK | Social media community for people who love literary (and literal) drama |
| HOWE | Irving **** , US literary and social critic born in 1920 (4) |
