| ABSE | Dannie, author of the volume of poetry Ask the Bloody Horse (4) |
| LEVI | Primo, Italian author of the volume of fiction and memoirs The Periodic Table (4) |
| WINN | Godfrey -, author of the volumes of autobiography The Positive Hour and The Infirm Glory (4) |
| OVID | 'Tales From --', volume of poetry by Ted Hughes which won the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1997 (4) |
| SETH | Author of A Suitable Boy, the novel in verse The Golden Gate and five volumes of poetry including Beastly Tales (4) |
| PRIMO | And 18 Author of the volume of fiction and memoir The Periodic Table (5,4) |
| IVOR | And 16 British composer whose volumes of poetry include War's Embers (4,6) |
| CHANG | Jung ___, author of the volume of biography Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (5) |
| IDES | Some time in March the bloody rent was due |
| MCCOURT | Frank ___, author of the volumes of memoir 'Tis and Teacher Man (7) |
| 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) |
| OXYGEN | It constitutes about one-fifth of the volume of the atmosphere |
| AMAZON | The world's largest river in terms of the volume of water it carries (6) |
| KEBLE | John ?, a leader of the Oxford Movement and author of 1827 volume of poetry The Christian Year |
| FLYLEAVES | Volume of poetry by Charles Stuart Calverley, its title is taken from the term for the blank pages in the end of a book (3,6) |
| NIGELROBERTS | New Zealand-born, and a leading member of the Balmain Poetry Group, whose first volume of poetry is In Casablanca for the Waters (1977)? (5,7) |
| PROOFS | Shots of pros in early editions of the volume (6) |
| AUMERLE | In 4.1, this character is accused of being involved in "noble Gloucester's death, Who wrought it with the King, and who performed The bloody office of his timeless end." Who is it? |
| SHORTCUMMINGS | Title of an abridged volume of poetry by E. E.? |
