| HORACE | 18th-century English writer and Whig politician, owner of Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham (6) |
| WALPOLE | 18th-century English writer and Whig politician, owner of Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham (7) |
| SHERIDAN | Richard Brinsley -; Irish satirist, playwright and Whig politician who wrote The Rivals and The School for Scandal (8) |
| MARTINEAU | Harriet ---, 19th Century British social theorist and Whig writer (9) |
| WALTON | 17th-century English writer (surname) best known as the author of The Compleat Angler (6) |
| SEWELL | 19th Century English writer famous for the novel Black Beauty (4,6) |
| SIEGEL | Star of The Haunting of Hill House, Kate - (6) |
| SYSTEM | Process top and bottom of strawberry stalk (6) |
| BRONTE | 19th-century English writer Emily |
| PLOUGH | Till, in Twickenham |
| SAMUELJOHNSON | 18th Century English writer and lexicographer who is buried at Westminster Abbey (6,7) |
| GREENE | Graham -, twentieth century English author |
| SENATE | Hill house |
| JOHNSON | Samuel ?, 18th-century English writer and lexicographer buried at Westminster Abbey, London (7) |
| HORACEWALPOLE | Art historian and politician who built Strawberry Hill and wrote the novel The Castle Of Otranto (6,7) |
| GIBBONS | Creator of the Carved Room at Petworth House and of a lime-wood cravat so realistic that its former owner Sir Horace Walpole wore it to greet visitors at Strawberry Hill (7) |
| POPE | Poet, Kit-Cat, Scriblerian, master of the heroic couplet and celebrator of the goddess Dulness in The Dunciad, whose villa in Twickenham, as seen in a painting by Turner, was demolished, leaving only |
| LEAR | Edward - - -, 19th Century English writer and artist known for his nonsense literature (4) |
| PATER | Walter ---, 19th Century English writer and critic whose works include The Renaissance (5) |
| EMILYBRONTE | 19th-century English author and poet who wrote under the pseudonym Ellis Bell (5,6) |
