| IMPALER | Vlad the - - -, nickname of a Romanian ruler said to have inspired the novel Dracula (7) |
| EMPEROR | What is the nickname of a Beethoven piano concerto, a Haydn string quartet and a Strauss waltz? (7) |
| SELKIRK | Alexander ..., castaway who inspired the novel Robinson Crusoe (7) |
| VLAD | Romanian ruler known as "the Impaler" |
| JANEEYRE | Book that inspired the novel Wide Sargasso Sea |
| BLARNEY | ___ Stone (rock said to have inspired the phrase "Kiss me, I'm Irish") |
| CARLYLE | Scottish historian whose book about the French Revolution is said to have inspired A Tale of Two Cit |
| PURBECK | Isle of ; peninsula on the Jurassic Coast with landmarks including Durdle Door and Corfe Castle, said to have inspired many books by Enid Blyton (7) |
| TINTERN | Can a bird have inspired the poet's quinquennial visit here? (7) |
| DRACULA | Bram Stoker's character said to have been inspired by Vlad the Impaler (7) |
| FOSSIL | Any one of the prehistoric remains collected from Lyme Regis by Mary Anning - the palaeontologist said to have inspired the tongue-twister "She sells seashells on the seashore" (6) |
| ROUNDHOUSE | Traditional lock-up on or near a village green or marketplace, such as that in Castle Cary with a domed roof said to have inspired the shape of the British police custodian helmet (10) |
| FLAG | A piece of bunting with distinctive colours and a design such as a border, canton, saltire, skull and crossbones or stripes; or, a yellow iris thought to have inspired the fleur-de-lis (4) |
| ANNE | A queen of the Stuart dynasty whose skill in lacemaking, or lace itself, is said to have inspired one of the names for cow-parsley (4) |
| NASTASE | Ilie ___ (b 1946), a Romanian tennis player (7) |
| DESPOTS | Ivan the Terrible, Vlad the Impaler, et al. |
| COURT | Fyne -; National Trust-owned garden in the Quantocks once home to Andrew Crosse, the scientist said to have inspired Mary Shelley to create Frankenstein (5) |
| APPLE | What kind of object is said to have inspired Isaac Newton to formulate his theory of gravitation? (5) |
| BALLANTYNE | Author of some 100 adventure novels including The Coral Island, a book said to have inspired Robert Louis Stevenson and J. M. Barrie (10) |
| ISAAC | First name of the physicist whose apple tree at Woolsthorpe Manor is said to have inspired his law of universal gravitation (5) |
