| ABSE | Dannie ___, author of the volumes of poetry Running Late and Ask the Bloody Horse (4) |
| WINN | Godfrey -, author of the volumes of autobiography The Positive Hour and The Infirm Glory (4) |
| LEVI | Primo, Italian author of the volume of fiction and memoirs The Periodic Table (4) |
| SETH | Author of A Suitable Boy, the novel in verse The Golden Gate and five volumes of poetry including Beastly Tales (4) |
| IVOR | And 16 British composer whose volumes of poetry include War's Embers (4,6) |
| MCCOURT | Frank ___, author of the volumes of memoir 'Tis and Teacher Man (7) |
| PRIMO | And 18 Author of the volume of fiction and memoir The Periodic Table (5,4) |
| EVEN | A woman who walks into a hair salon and asks the stylist for a trim is hoping to get ___ |
| CHANG | Jung ___, author of the volume of biography Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (5) |
| JUNGCHANG | Author of the volume Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (4,5) |
| NITROGEN | Name the gas that forms about four-fifths of the volume of the atmosphere (8) |
| PROOFREADS | Scans for errors in the strength of the spirit and how one studies the volumes (10) |
| AMAZON | The world's largest river in terms of the volume of water it carries (6) |
| OXYGEN | Colorless, odorless, gas about one-fifth of the volume of the atmosphere. (6) |
| ROBERTROBINSON | Presenter of Call My Bluff and Ask The Family on BBC TV |
| KIERKEGAARD | Soren ?, 19th-century Danish philosopher who authored the volumes Either/Or and Fear and Trembling (11) |
| IVORGURNEY | British composer whose volumes of poetry include 1917's Severn & Somme (4,6) |
| FLECKER | James Elroy -, London-born writer whose volumes of poetry include 1913's The Golden Journey to Samarkand (7) |
| DOROTHY | US humorist whose volumes of poetry include 1931's Death and Taxes |
| PARKER | US humorist whose volumes of poetry include 1931's Death and Taxes (7,6) (see 8A) |
