| STENDHAL | Writer, having had shoddy literary toils rejected, left |
| BALMORAL | Laced boot seaman rejected -- left and right (8) |
| RETIRED | Socialist, without ceremony, rejected left (7) |
| WALLOP | Strike legislation rejected -- left work (6) |
| KIPLING | Writer having one pawn left taken by King (7) |
| BIRDTABLE | Good book about art deco, writer having left out garden feature (4,5) |
| TUFTED | Express annoyance over function of writer having bunched up grass (6) |
| RABBLE | Female writer having head obscured in crowd (6) |
| ASCRIBED | A writer, having died, gets attributed (8) |
| COLETTE | French writer having care of unfinished letter (7) |
| AMOS | Old writer having ritual drink in retreat (4) |
| OPENDOOR | Free admission from old writer having got cross, upset (4,4) |
| OPENSUP | Old writer having drink becomes more communicative (5,2) |
| PATRICIA | Writer having revised Part One spies wasted worker at forge (8,9) |
| SPARK | Writer having pint in island (5) |
| DRAMATIST | Writer having wee drink at one's theatre, initially (9) |
| SAMARKAND | French writer having an impact in Uzbek city |
| MEMORABLE | The writer having confidence about book is noteworthy |
| RABELAIS | French writer having first murdered man in lift, backing away |
| DODGSON | Writer having no energy avoids working |
