| NOVELIST | Writer having month with the Spanish first (8) |
| NOVEL | Month with the Spanish work of fiction (5) |
| DECANTER | Glass container used by worker during month with the queen (8) |
| SATIRIST | Writer having day with one royal first (8) |
| PENSTOCK | Writer having block -- what can get the flow going? (8) |
| ASCRIBED | A writer, having died, gets attributed (8) |
| RABELAIS | French writer having first murdered man in lift, backing away |
| MISSPENT | Unmarried female writer having time wasted (8) |
| REMEDIED | Put right regarding writer having finished (8) |
| SPECIMEN | Second writer having mice problem, for example (8) |
| PASADENA | Writer having a miserable afternoon in American city (8) |
| PATRICIA | and 15dn, Writer having revised Part One spies wasted worker at forge (8,9) |
| NAKEDEYE | Yankee upset over writer having the ability to see without glasses (5,3) |
| OPENDOOR | Free admission from old writer having got cross, upset (4,4) |
| STENDHAL | Writer, having had shoddy literary toils rejected, left |
| TURGENEV | Russian writer, having invited press in, opening up |
| ELEVEN | The Spanish first lady's new team (6) |
| JUNE | Month with the longest day of the year |
| OMBUDSMAN | Investigator with friends from Washington having month in Gulf state (9) |
| FIFTEENTH | About mid- month, with "the" |
