Around the perimeter starting at one corner run two lines of a verse (ten words). Two unclued lights give the name of the author (in her formal style); other unclued lights give one association with each of the adjectives in the quotation.
 

Across

10    Smile conceals a natural character (5)
11    Eastern exercise in goodness is vain (5)
14    Clever Scots start to get on (4)
15    I left flying Gulf Air, not rich (6)
17    A few lines, and three more, including English correspondence (8)
20    Growing attached, is less easy at first to dislodge (7)
22    Old jingle about this ruler (4)
24    A conquest of Zeus?...