| QUILLPEN | Old writer who in France confronts Left and Right-winger ignoring one inevitable conclusion (5-3) |
| THENHL | Org. with both left- and right-wingers |
| ASUREMEASURE | One inevitable bar of music? |
| SPILLANE | Crime writer who's in his right mind when taken drug (8) |
| STANLEY | New York Times writer who in 1871 uttered the words, 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' (7) |
| POET | Writer who, in the morning, goes from bed to verse |
| LINE | Left winger, centre, and right winger who play as a unit |
| CRIMSON | Red and right-winger restricting borders |
| LEFTY | Writer who's in the minority |
| FOREGONE | Like an inevitable conclusion |
| LIUCIXIN | Author who, in 2015, became the first Asian to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel, for "The Three-Body Problem" |
| DAIQUIRI | One who, in France, runs into Welshman for a drink (8) |
| AQUILINE | Sort of beak who in France is involved in a row |
| QUIETUDE | Who in France has study in silence? (8) |
| QUISLING | Traitor who, in France, faces the rope |
| ALPHABET | Mountain custom ignoring one in favour of European characters (8) |
| MOONBEAM | Active mine boom ignoring one about a late shaft? |
| TRAVESTY | Playwright ignoring one rule with extremely tacky parody |
| BOTHERED | Troubled twosome did wrong ignoring one rule (8) |
| DISTANCE | Ignoring one perhaps indicates unfriendliness (8) |
