| THEAGE | Start of titles by Auden, Wharton and Paine |
| SEA | Ending of titles by Jean Rhys and Ernest Hemingway |
| DEISTS | Allen and Paine, religiously |
| FREEMAN | Citizen especially honoured following return of title by monarch (7) |
| ASCENT | 'The -- of F6', musical play by Auden and Isherwood (6) |
| JAMES | The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove author whose literary friends included Hugh Walpole, Edith Wharton and Constance Fenimore Woolson (5) |
| OVER | One of three ancient districts of Winsford, noted for the salt industry; the other two boroughs are Wharton, and Swanlow and Dene (4) |
| SUNSHINE | First word of #1 titles by Donovan and John Denver |
| WHOPPER | Work by Auden perhaps, a great piece of fiction |
| PRAYER | Word in hit titles by Seal, Madonna, and Bon Jovi |
| KATMANDU | World capital in song titles by Cat Stevens and Bob Seger |
| OFOZ | End of many titles by Baum |
| DEATH | First word in titles by Arthur Miller and Agatha Christie |
| PABLO | Name in album titles by Radiohead and Kanye West |
| RONDEAU | Poem written by Auden or anyone else (7) |
| THESAME | Identical turbulent themes probed by Auden initially (3,4) |
| VICTOR | Result of 1980 Wimbledon Men's final, fifth of titles for 5 of the P (6,5) |
| SKEETE | In 2016, Bradley ____ won the British and Commonwealth welterweight titles by defeating Sam Eggington |
| EDITHS | Writers Wharton and Sitwell |
| LENOX | Massachusetts town once home to Edith Wharton and Andrew Carnegie |
