| LAURIELEE | English writer noted for his memoir, Cider With Rosie (6,3) |
| AMOS | **** Oz, writer noted for his memoir 'A Tale Of Love and Darkness' (4) |
| CASANOVA | Giacomo ___, 18th-century Italian adventurer noted for his memoir Histoire de ma vie (8) |
| QUENTINCRISP | 20th Century writer and actor famous for his memoir The Naked Civil Servant (7,5) |
| DEQUINCEY | Critic and essayist who references his occupancy at his friend William Wordsworth's former house, Dove Cottage, in his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (2,7) |
| SHUTE | Nevil, English writer noted for his 1950 novel A Town Like Alice (5) |
| VIOLET | ____ Trefusis, English author noted for her affair with the writer Vita Sackville-West (6) |
| BELLOC | French-born English writer noted for the poetry collections The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896) and Cautionary Tales for Children (1907) (6) |
| HILAIRE | French-born English writer noted for the poetry collections The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896) and Cautionary Tales for Children (1907) (7) |
| JEROME | Jerome K., English writer noted for Three Men in a Boat (6) |
| ENID | ____ Bagnold, English writer noted for her novel National Velvet (4) |
| AMIS | Kingsley, English author noted for his novel Lucky Jim published in 1954 (4) |
| WELDON | Fay, English writer noted for her 1983 novel The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil (6) |
| FIELDING | Henry, English author noted for the novel Tom Jones (8) |
| KINSELLA | Sophie, English author noted for her Shopaholic series (8) |
| ROLLINTHEHAY | Sequel to Cider with Rosie? Another novel with hilly setting (4,2,3,3) |
| LEE | Author of a biographical trilogy beginning with Cider with Rosie (3) |
| LAURIE | _ Lee, English poet and novelist whose works included Cider With Rosie (6) |
| SLAD | Gloucestershire village where Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie was set (4) |
| STROUD | Cotswolds town where Cider with Rosie and As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning author Laurie Lee was born (6) |
