| SONTAG | Susan ---, US intellectual, critic and essayist |
| ANTON | Susan -, US actress who starred as Goldine Serafin in 1979 film drama Goldengirl |
| STEINER | George *****. literary critic and essayist born in 1929 (7) |
| HAZLITT | William, early 19th-century English writer, an esteemed critic and essayist (7) |
| DEQUINCEY | Critic and essayist who references his occupancy at his friend William Wordsworth's former house, Dove Cottage, in his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (2,7) |
| SUSANSONTAG | New York-born critic and essayist who wrote the novel The Volcano Lover (5,6) |
| WALDO | Ralph ----- Emerson, US poet and essayist (5) |
| GEORGEORWELL | 20th Century novelist and essayist who wrote Animal Farm and 1984 (6,6) |
| LOUISEGLUCK | US poet and essayist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in October 2020 (6,5) |
| GOREVIDAL | US novelist and essayist whose books included Myra Breckinridge (4,5) |
| ORWELL | George, English novelist and essayist who coined the terms Big Brother and doublethink (6) |
| DYLANTHOMAS | Welsh poet and essayist whose works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and Under Milk Wood |
| CLIVEJAMES | Australian critic, novelist, TV presenter, poet and essayist who autobiographical works include Falling Towards England |
| EDMUNDWHITE | US novelist and essayist noted for his biography of Jean Genet |
| ADDISON | Surname of the dramatist, poet and essayist famous for his tragedy Cato and the 'Coverley' essays (7) |
| HEINE | German poet and essayist Heinrich |
| RALPH | American poet and essayist (5,5,7) |
| ECCLEFECHAN | Birthplace of the historian and essayist, Thomas Carlyle (11) |
| LAMBERT | Composer and essayist back on time? |
| EMERSON | Ralph Waldo, American poet and essayist (7) |
