| SCHUMACHER | EF ____ wrote the 1973 book Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered |
| NEWMATH | Failed school curriculum that was the subject of the 1973 book "Why Johnny Can't Add" |
| ADAM | Scottish thinker who pioneered the academic study of economics, ... Smith |
| BIBELOTS | From a fanciful French formation based on "beautiful", a word for knick-knacks or curious trinkets; or, miniature books (8) |
| BENSON | EF _____ created the fictional characters Mapp and Lucia |
| DISMAL | Thomas Carlyle famously described Economics as "the ___ science". (6) |
| PSALMS | Old Testament book, small relief when under pressure (6) |
| TALENTSPOTTER | Scout in story books, small boy doing magical things |
| RUBBISH | Refuse to hurry carrying two books, small number (7) |
| ERICAJONG | American novelist and poet who wrote the 1973 novel Fear Of Flying (5,4) |
| NINA | _ Bawden author who wrote the 1973 children's book Carrie's War (4) |
| DRJOHN | New Orleans blues musician who wrote the 1973 hit "Right Place, Wrong Time" |
| SKITOW | Christy Small is involved in broadcast offering the highs and lows of the Alps (3,3) |
| ENEMY | ___ At The Gates, 1973 book by William Craig about the Battle for Stalingrad (5) |
| ATOMIC | Infinitesimally small is how we call the infinitely most destructive of all. (6) |
| KEEPALOWPROFILE | Stay out of sight of ale, if people work drunk |
| DEMANDING | It's installed in a tandem, and in gear-changes is requiring much ef ort (9) |
| RILEY | Poet who wrote "An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you / Ef you / Don't / Watch / Out!" |
| RYE | East Sussex town on which Tillingham in the EF Benson Mapp and Lucia books is based |
| OHMSLAW | How small is small to derive properties of power (4,3) |
