| OLIVERGOLDSMITH | Irish writer and musical craftsman |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish writer and wit (5,5) |
| YEAST | Final upset for Irish writer and fermenter |
| YEATS | Irish writer and youth leader get food (5) |
| WILDE | Oscar -, Irish writer and wit (5) |
| JOYCE | James Augustine Aloysius --, 1882-1941, Irish writer and poet (5) |
| BROWN | Christy _, Irish writer and painter whose 1954 autobiography My Left Foot was adapted for a 1989 film (5) |
| SPIKEMILLIGAN | Irish writer and comedian born in 1918 noted for his anarchic sense of absurdity (5,8) |
| CHRISTYBROWN | Irish writer and painter played by Daniel Day-Lewis in the 1989 film My Left Foot (7,5) |
| OBRIEN | Conor Cruise, Irish writer and politician born in 1917 (6) |
| SWIFT | Anglo-Irish author and clergyman who wrote about Lilliput, Brobdingnag and the Land of the Houyhnhnms in his satire Gulliver's Travels (5) |
| BEHAN | Surname of the Irish author and playwright whose works include The Quare Fellow and Borstal Boy (5) |
| OSCAR | - Wilde, Irish author and playwright (5) |
| JONATHANSWIFT | Anglo-Irish author and clergyman noted for his novel Gulliver's Travels published in 1726 (8,5) |
| BECKETT | Samuel _, Irish author and Nobel laureate (1969) noted for the 1953 play En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) (7) |
| KEYES | Marian, Irish author and radio presenter born in 1963 (5) |
| EMI | Found in semi-ripe cuttings, Electrical and Musical Industries Ltd was a British business group and a record label between 1931 and 2012! (1,1,1) |
| JESSIEMATTHEWS | English star of 1920s musical revues and 1930s comedy and musical films, who later played Mrs Dale on BBC radio |
| GUYS | Movie and musical, ... And Dolls |
| RONDEAU | Medieval and Renaissance poetic and musical form (7) |
