| SUMMONEDBYBELLS | John Betjeman verse autobiography |
| SHELL | Outer layer of a bird's egg; or, a series of county guidebooks whose contributors included John Betjeman, Paul Nash and John Piper (5) |
| PIPER | Artist John Egerton Christmas who painted The Englishman's Home for the Festival of Britain, designed stained glass and collaborated with John Betjeman, Geoffrey Grigson and Ben Nicholson, among other |
| BOMBS | "Come friendly ___ and fall on Slough", John Betjeman. (5) |
| AUDEN | W. H. -; poet who dedicated his Pulitzer Prize-winning piece The Age of Anxiety to Sir John Betjeman (5) |
| SUBALTERN | A ____’s Love-song is the John Betjeman poem featuring Joan Hunter Dunn |
| SLOUGH | Large town in Berkshire immortalised by John Betjeman in a 1937 poem |
| LUDLOW | Shropshire town described by poet Sir John Betjeman as 'probably the loveliest [...] in England' (1943) (6) |
| HUMANS | What Slough is no longer fit for, according to John Betjeman |
| INVERSE | How Betjeman wrote his autobiography? The opposite |
| PRESERVATIONIST | One such as Betjeman recollected patriots in verse (15) |
| BELLS | Summoned by - (Betjeman) |
| POET | Milton or Betjeman, say (4) |
| POETSLAUREATE | Bards such as Wordsworth, Tennyson and Betjeman |
| METROLAND | Opera house chap that was lauded by Betjeman? (9) |
| FRIENDLYFIRE | Accident of war Betjeman would have welcomed in Slough? |
| BLOODTYPE | Work by old poet, such as Auden or Betjeman for starters (5,4) |
| POETLAUREATE | Betjeman, for example, out late with a peer, drunk! (4,8) |
| SHERBORNE | Dorset's "abbey town of golden ironstone [...] a town of schools" (Betjeman) |
| COUPLETS | Exploit rented short-term homes? Betjeman would put them in his poems (8) |
