Clockwise round the grid from 16 run the titles of four works (4,4,9,6,1,5,3,5,3,4,6) by a late great 3 (two apostrophes) followed by the 3’s initials. The remaining unclued lights combine to give a further such title (three words in total). Elsewhere, ignore an apostrophe.
 

Across

9    Middle-Easterner very soon returns (5)
10    Shrew lacks a house (5)
11    Old physician sheltered children (5)
12    Bear’s appetite (7)
13    Short purple satin dresses with nothing in bad style (10, two words)
16    Smart bastard shuns wet (5)
18    Primula withered beside brook (8, hyphened)
19    Grimy early English church edged by River Wye (6)
21    Some practise section of opera (3)
24   ...