| QUILLPEN | Writer believed to have written all the works of Shakespeare (5,3) |
| BOWDLER | Thomas, English publisher of an 1818 expurgated version of the works of Shakespeare (7) |
| STAG | As written, all the world is 80% male? (4) |
| FELTTIP | Writer believed helpful advice |
| SONNETS | Boy captures the work of Shakespeare, for example (7) |
| RESTED | "On the seventh day He ... from all the work of creation" (Bible) |
| YEARROUND | All the work of Dickens, never a week off (4-5) |
| EQUALPAY | Peer to take care of Bill - it's a just reward for all the work he's done in fairness (5,3) |
| DOGSBODY | Bodgy sod's work is the one doing all the work (8) |
| PALPABLE | It's written all over someone's face - it's a mountain to climb for a bishop in place since the last |
| JAMESI | Shakespeare is believed to have written King Lear during a plague during the reign of what king? |
| SORBONNE | University circle into unfinished work of Shakespeare? (8) |
| OBC | Year that Ovid is believed to have written 'The Art of Love' |
| ESSENE | Member of ancient sect believed to have written the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| HOMER | He is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (5) |
| CRINGERS | Those with fear written all over their face |
| PATMOS | Greek island in the Aegean Sea on which John the Apostle is thought to have written the Book of Revelation (6) |
| TOBACCO | Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of the Various ____s is a monograph that Sherlock Holmes claimed to have written |
| BACON | British painter Francis, who was a descendant of the man some still hold to have written Shakespeare |
| TUTTIFRUTTI | Italian term, roughly translating as "all things, all the works", for a preserve, sweet or a US-style ice cream enjoyed for its all-singing all-dancing medley of candied papaya, glace cherries, pineap |
