| MCLUHAN | Marshall ---, Canadian author of works analysing the mass media (7) |
| KOPECKY | Arno ___, canadian author of The Oil Man and the Sea: navigating the northern Gateway |
| MICHAEL | Sri Lankan-born Canadian author of the 1992 novel The English Patient, _ Ondaatje (7) |
| PATRICK | Canadian author of 2011 novel The Sisters Brothers (7,6) |
| COCTEAU | Jean , French author of works including Les Enfants terribles (novel, 1929) and La Machine infernale (play, 1934) (7) |
| MIASMAS | Bad atmospheres spread about by mass media editor denied (7) |
| EMPRESS | Ruler starts on eliminating mass media (7) |
| SCANSION | The act or art of analysing the metrical patterns of verse (8) |
| MALCOLM | ____ Gladwell, Canadian writer noted for analysing popular culture (7) |
| RADIO | One of the mass media (5) |
| EXAMINING | Analysing the possibility of axing the mine (9) |
| ASSAYING | Analysing the composition of metal (8) |
| POPART | Artistic movement influenced by commerce and the mass media (3,3) |
| PRESAGES | Forecasts decline in the mass media (8) |
| LIPREAD | Analysing PR lead, I see what you say (3-4) |
| EXPOSURE | Appearance in the mass media |
| BELLROPE | Sally, analysing the beer poll results (4,4) |
| TESTING | Examining and analysing |
| PIRANDELLO | Luigi ___, Italian author of works including The Turn (novel, 1902) and Six Characters in Search of an Author (play, (1921); Nobel Prize for Literature (1934) (10) |
| TROLLOPE | Author of works set around the town of Barchester |
