| STEELE | A member of the Kit-Cat Club who co-founded The Spectator and wrote The Tatler under the pen name Isaac Bickerstaff (6) |
| KNELLER | Sir Godfrey -; artist who painted a series of portraits of members of the Kit-Cat Club (7) |
| LIDDLE | Rod ___, journalist who is an associate editor of The Spectator and former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme |
| LEWISCARROLL | His pen name is the anglicized Latin forms of his first and middle names, transposed |
| NELLIEBLY | Her pen name is the title character in a Stephen Foster song |
| OBSERVER | The Spectator, and another news publication, cut article |
| MARKTWAIN | His pen name is a steamboat call |
| BAGATELLE | Be all worried about the spectators and the game (9) |
| ANNERICE | One of her pen names is A. N. Roquelaire |
| ADDISON | Kit-Cat Club member who ' co-founded The Spectator with Sir Richard Steele in 1711 (7) |
| MARRYAT | Naval officer who developed a code of maritime flag signalling and wrote The Children of the New Forest and a number of sea stories (7) |
| WALPOLE | Imprisoned in the Tower of London for some six months, a Kit-Cat Club member regarded as Britain's first prime minister, for whom Houghton Hall was built in the 1700s and whose son coined "serendipity |
| WHIGS | Political party with prominent members who formed the Kit-Cat Club (5) |
| CARNAP | Philosopher who was a founding member of the Vienna Circle and wrote The Logical Structure of the World (6) |
| RAMSAY | Wig-maker and poet who founded Britain's first circulating library and wrote the The Gentle Shepherd and compilation of Scots songs The Tea- Table Miscellany (6) |
| POPE | Poet, Kit-Cat, Scriblerian, master of the heroic couplet and celebrator of the goddess Dulness in The Dunciad, whose villa in Twickenham, as seen in a painting by Turner, was demolished, leaving only |
| ETTORESCHMITZ | What is the birth name of Italo Svevo, who was taught English by James Joyce and wrote The Confessio |
| BRECHT | German playwright and poet, 1898-1956, who co-wrote The Threepenny Opera and wrote The Caucasian Chalk Circle (6) |
| MUIR | Take It from Here co-writer with Denis Norden who was a team captain on Call My Bluff and wrote the What-a-Mess series of books for children (4) |
| HORACEWALPOLE | Art historian and politician who built Strawberry Hill and wrote the novel The Castle Of Otranto (6,7) |
