| EDITHS | Writers Wharton and Sitwell |
| EDITH | What first name links writers Wharton and Nesbit? (5) |
| 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) |
| THEAGE | Start of titles by Auden, Wharton and Paine |
| LENOX | Massachusetts town once home to Edith Wharton and Andrew Carnegie |
| EDIT | Author Wharton discarded husband's text amendment (4) |
| OSBERT | A forename of the author of A Place of One's Own who is depicted in a painting by John Singer Sargent with his parents and his siblings Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell (6) |
| STANLEYBALDWIN | ... novel by Sitwell and an ex-PM (7,7) |
| ASTALL | "Jane, Jane, ___ as a crane": Sitwell |
| RAIN | "Still Falls the __": Edith Sitwell poem |
| MEREDITH | Novelist just overlapping with Sitwell |
| ANGLER | Eg Walton's fury about Sitwell, ultimately |
| FACADE | Series of poems by Edith Sitwell set to music by William Walton in an 'entertainment' first performed in public in 1923 |
| LAMBERT | Founder Music Director of the Royal Ballet who was a reciter in the Sitwell-Walton Facade collaboration (7) |
| BELSHAZZARSFEAST | Cantata by Sir William Walton with libretto by Osbert Sitwell, based on biblical sources (11,5) |
| STILLWATERS | Ones that run deep, for the star of the Sitwell generation (5,6) |
| PEKINGESE | "Why not be oneself?" asked Dame Edith Sitwell. "That is the whole secret of a successful appearance |
| MBAS | Harvard and Wharton degs. |
| SYR | Series featuring Wharton Tiers, Jim O'Rourke and Coco Haley Gordon-Moore |
