16a. Hear those making reparation to novelists (7)
?R?T?R?
WRITERS or ORATORS ??????
2d. Cut top off sausage in rage (5)
?N?E?
19d. This war might confine lots of six-footers (5)
?W?R?
SWARM ??? It's hidden amongst the letters of the clue but I don't get how it relates to six-footers?