| IRONIST | Type of satirist such as Jonathan Swift (7) |
| DUNCIAD | Work of satirist failing to secure new agents (7) |
| SWIFT | As speedy as Jonathan, the Gulliver's Travels author (5) |
| GRANT | Hugh ---, actor who co-starred as Jonathan Fraser in the HBO mini-series The Undoing (5) |
| IRIS | The fleur-de-lis is in the heart of satirists |
| SITWELL | Eldest of three literary siblings who wrote the poetry collection Facade and novelised biography of Jonathan Swift I Live Under a Black Sun (7) |
| VANESSA | Name invented by Jonathan Swift that was adopted as the genus of butterflies that includes the painted lady and red admiral (7) |
| JUVENAL | Precursor of Jonathan Swift |
| TRAVELS | 1726 novel by Jonathan Swift (9,7) |
| SATIRES | Jonathan Swift works, e.g. (7) |
| ATALEOF | 1704 satire by Jonathan Swift (1,4,2,1,3) |
| IRELAND | Jonathan Swift's birthplace |
| OVERRUN | "Politics [...] are nothing but corruptions [...] for which reason courts are so ____ with politics" (Jonathan Swift) |
| SATIRIC | Jonathan Swift-like |
| YAHOO | One of a race of brutal humans in 1726 Jonathan Swift novel Gulliver's Travels (5) |
| SATIRIST | Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift is considered one of the foremost writers of this kind (8) |
| PROPOSAL | A __, Jonathan Swift's way of Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country? (6,8) |
| MODEST | A __, Jonathan Swift's way of Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country? (6,8) |
| TUB | "A Tale of a ___" (Jonathan Swift satire) |
| WAR | "The child of Pride," according to Jonathan Swift |
