| STRONG | Former director of the V&A and also the National Portrait Gallery, author of books including The Artist and the Garden, A Country Life and The Elizabethan Image (6) |
| SCIENCE | From the Latin for "to know", a word for any branch of knowledge including the arts originally, later for the more specific study of the natural and physical world (7) |
| DAWKINS | Biologist, fellow of the Royal Society and author of books including The Blind Watchmaker, Unweaving the Rainbow and The Magic of Reality (7) |
| WEST | Pen name of the author of books including The Return of the Soldier, The Fountain Overflows, Sunflower and Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (4) |
| ELIOT | Pen name of Mary Ann Evans, author of books including The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch and Scenes of Clerical Life collection of three stories (5) |
| KENNETHFRANKCOLES | 1979 William Dargie portrait, now part of the National Portrait Gallery collection? (7,5,5) |
| CHANDOS | Most famous of the portraits that may depict Shakespeare, located at the National Portrait Gallery, London (7) |
| EDITH | Forename of the author who wrote The Railway Children, The Story of the Treasure Seekers and also the Psammead that includes The Story of the Amulet (5) |
| OBAMA | Subject of a Kehinde Wiley portrait in the National Portrait Gallery |
| EDITHCAVELL | Opposite the National Portrait Gallery in London is a statue commemorating this WWI nurse and humani |
| LESSING | Born in Persia and brought up in Rhodesia until moving to London in her 30s, author of books including The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook (7) |
| TREE | Author of books including The Bird Man, Islands in the Clouds and Wilding (4) |
| GRAVES | Robert -; author of books including the historical novel I, Claudius and the autobiographical classic Goodbye to All That (6) |
| THACKERAY | William Makepeace -; author of books including Vanity Fair, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond and The Fitz-Boodle Papers (9) |
| SAMSMITH | Singer/songwriter depicted in Gloria at the National Portrait Gallery (3,5) |
| ADAMS | Author of books including Watership Down, Nature Through the Seasons, The Tyger Voyage and The Ship's Cat (5) |
| PECK | Author of books including A Patchwork Tale, The Skirts of Time, A Garden Enclosed, House-Bound and Home for the Holidays (4) |
| MACAULAY | Dame Rose ___; author of books including Potterism, Keeping Up Appearances and The Towers of Trebizond (8) |
| SNOWGOOSE | The - -; novella by Paul Gallico, author of books including Thomasina and The Poseidon Adventure (4,5) |
| BURNETT | Author of books including Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, The Secret Garden and The Lost Prince (7) |
