| PENNED | Wrote of being confined |
| STIRCRAZY | Psychologically disturbed as a result of being confined or locked up (4-5) |
| REPENT | Feel sorry for doing wrong, being confined again? (6) |
| AMOEBA | Regularly harms one's brat, being confined to a single cell (6) |
| GRATED | Sounded harsh but right in being confined to college (6) |
| PENTUP | Writer set about being confined (4-2) |
| GATING | Silencer can be included while being confined to college |
| LAIDUP | Face maybe being confined to bed? |
| READER | Lecturer's case for Drake being confined to Tower |
| SHUTUP | Say nothing, being confined (4,2) |
| RUPERT | Poet who wrote of ... (6,6) |
| SHARPE | Blott on the Landscape author who also wrote of the trials of public schoolboy Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown in Vintage Stuff (6) |
| JEROME | Author and humorist who wrote of the ostensible boating adventures of three fellows, and fox terrier Montmorency, in his comic novel Three Men in a Boat (6) |
| BLYTON | Author who wrote of the boarding school adventures of Darrell, Emily, Gwendoline, Mary-Lou and other girls in her Malory Towers books (6) |
| IRVING | Author "Geoffrey Crayon" who wrote of a book of sketches or stories that includes a legend about Sleepy Hollow and a tale about a henpecked husband called Rip Van Winkle (6) |
| BUNYAN | A bunny who wrote of progress (6) |
| COWARD | Noel wrote of one having a yellow streak (6) |
| BROOKE | Poet who wrote of "... some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England" |
| NORTON | Author who wrote of the fictional Clock, Harpsichord, Overmantel, Rainbarrel and Rain Pipe families in The Borrowers (6) |
| EUNUCH | "We had a - - - refereeing the match," Neil Francis wrote of Jaco Peyper after the 2016 Ireland-New Zealand Test (6) |
