| WESLEY | Author from Devon whose novels including Jumping the Queue, The Camomile Lawn and Harnessing Peacocks were adapted to screen (6) |
| KINGSLEY | Victorian author born in Holne, Devon, whose novels include Cheap Clothes and Nasty, Hypatia, or New |
| KENDAL | Voice of Hunca Munca in the series The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends who starred in The Good Life, The Camomile Lawn and Rosemary & Thyme (6) |
| JAMES | Author whose novels including The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove have been adapted into films, stage plays and television dramas (5) |
| WELLS | H. G. -; author whose novels including The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds have been adapted into films (5) |
| AUSTEN | Jane -; author whose novels including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma have been adapted to screen (6) |
| CHANDLER | Raymond -; author whose novels including The Big Sleep and The High Window feature private eye Philip Marlowe (8) |
| MCNEILE | H C -, author whose novels, including Mufti and Ronald Standish, were published under the name Sapper (7) |
| MARYWESLEY | Writer of the 1984 novel The Camomile Lawn (4,6) |
| EHLE | Jennifer ____'s first TV appearance was as Calypso in Channel 4's 1992 adaptation of The Camomile Lawn |
| CUTINFRONTOF | Annoy by jumping the queue, and a hint to the circled words |
| MCEWAN | Ian -; author whose novels including The Comfort of Strangers, Atonement and On Chesil Beach have been adapted into films (6) |
| CALYPSO | Protagonist in The Camomile Lawn (7) |
| LUNDY | National Trust owned and Landmark Trust managed, an island off the coast of North Devon whose early postage stamp charge was known as puffinage (5) |
| BIDEFORD | Town in North Devon whose 24-arch Long Bridge spans the River Torridge |
| DART | Flechette; river in Devon whose name derives from an ancient word for oak; or, Taung child discoverer (4) |
| EXETER | City in Devon whose name contains the river on which it is situated |
| HONITON | Antiques town on the River Otter in Devon, whose local lace trimmed Queen Victoria's wedding dress (7) |
| AMBROSIA | The nectar of the gods - or a custard from Devon? (8) |
| EDGER | Dutch hoe-like garden tool for neatening/trimming the borders and sides of lawns and paths (5) |
