| TURN | Surprise to arrive at a literary festival? (4-2,3,3,5) |
| UPFOR | Surprise to arrive at a literary festival? (4-2,3,3,5) |
| THEBOOKS | Surprise to arrive at a literary festival? (4-2,3,3,5) |
| HAY | Welsh town with a literary festival (3) |
| GETSOMEWHERE | Manages to arrive at a destination, but don't know at what place (3,9) |
| BREACH | Bold to arrive at a place you might step into in a crisis, perhaps |
| COMETOAHEAD | Space traveller takes oxygen in advance to arrive at a crisis |
| EARLY | Unfashionable time to arrive at a party |
| FASHIONABLYLATE | *One way to arrive at a party |
| REACH | To arrive at a place (5) |
| AMEANSTOANEND | One way to arrive at a conclusion? |
| OUTCOME | Unacceptable to arrive at a conclusion (7) |
| STRICYLY | Surely one has to arrive at a ballroom (8) |
| COMETOPASS | Happen to arrive at a gap between the peaks |
| CANTATA | Is unable to arrive at a harmonious composition |
| HIT | To arrive at a place |
| GAMEPLAN | Good design ample to arrive at a new strategy (4,4) |
| REAPPEARANCE | About to arrive at a party, in the end, making another entrance (12) |
| VAL | ___ McDermid, leading author coming to the DIVA Literary Festival in Birmingham |
| WRITERSATWOODYPOINT | Annual literary festival in Newfoundland, August 14th to August 19th, 2018: 4 wds. |
