| HILDA | Female saint written about by Bede (5) |
| ACE | Excellent account by Bede, ultimately |
| HERBS | Medicinal or culinary plants written about by Nicholas Culpeper (5) |
| NIGHT | January 6, written about by Shakespeare (7,5) |
| TOSCA | Ascot written about by Puccini (5) |
| AGNES | Female saint whose feast day is January 21st (5) |
| INDIA | Country written about by author V. S. Naipul in his travelogue trilogy including An Area of Darkness (5) |
| SEALS | Cachets such as those made with "kisses" of wax embossed with signet rings; or, aquatic animals written about by Rowena Farre (5) |
| GULAG | Prison written about by Solzhenitsyn |
| ELIOT | Pen name of the novelist who wrote about characters including carpenter Adam Bede, watchmaker Felix Holt and miller's daughter Maggie Tulliver (5) |
| ADAMS | West and Bede |
| HETTY | ___ Sorrel ('Adam Bede' character) |
| CONFESS | Come clean about one written about female saints (7) |
| OLDROSES | Painted by Jan van Huysum and written about by Edward Bunyard, fragrant non-hybrid flowers such as the albas, centifolias, damasks and gallicas (3,5) |
| TWELFTH | January 6, written about by Shakespeare (7,5) |
| TERESA | Female saint famously sculpted by Bernini (6) |
| ICECREAM | Cold food made in a sorbetiere and written about by Victorian culinary pioneer Agnes Marshall (3,5) |
| LONGBOW | Weapon written about by Roger Ascham in his book Toxophilus (7) |
| REDBLOODED | Lusty older bod written about by journalist (3-7) |
| ANATOMY | Branch of morphology studied and written about by Henry Gray (7) |
