| ALCAPP | Cartoonist whom John Steinbeck said "may very possibly be the best writer in the world today" |
| MATTER | "If you were the only girl in the world, and I were the only boy; Nothing else would ... in the world today; We could go on loving in the same old way" |
| VERNE | The second-most-translated author in the world since 1979 (between Christie and Shakespeare) |
| ALAN | Moore with nine Eisner Awards for Best Writer |
| HAPPEN | How in a hen it may very quietly come to pass (6) |
| STAFFER | Worker may very loudly burst into a fit of tears (7) |
| HAITI | In the Caribbean, it couldn't possibly be the capital of Tahiti! (5) |
| JAWS | 1975 film that Pauline Kael said "may be the most cheerfully perverse scare movie ever made" |
| OBIWANKENOBI | He said, "May the Force be with you" |
| RENI | Baroque-era painter Guido, in whom John Ruskin found only "a few pale rays of fading sanctity" |
| WELL | Very possibly my hole in the ground |
| STAIRWELL | Where steps may be taken to look for eavesdropper very possibly |
| SCAR | A cliff fall could possibly be the reason for one |
| HEARD | Cattle, it's said, may be gathered |
| FLAIR | Light, it's said, may be bent |
| PHENOMENA | Quite remarkable to go off home with a writer in the middle of the evening |
| WEARY | The ____ Blues, poem by Langston Hughes, writer in the Harlem Renaissance (5) |
| HONDA | F1 team for whom John Surtees, Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello all drove (5) |
| CAMBERWELL | Doctor entering running race, very possibly in a London district (10) |
| FOOTWELL | Vehicle's part for which you need to pay, very possibly (8) |
