| BROTHERSGRIMM | 'The -- --', German philologists who collected and published fairy tales (8,5) |
| GRIMM | German brothers Jakob and Karl ... collected and published fairy tales to the delight of generations |
| EMILEDURKHEIM | Who proposed that society was more than the sum of its parts and published The Rules of Sociological Method (1895)? (5,8) |
| DEATHINVENICE | Book written by German author Thomas Mann and published in 1912 (5,2,6) |
| ANDREMICHELIN | Industrialist who co-founded a tyre company and published a tour guide (5,8) |
| GERTRUDESTEIN | Author who collected art coloured green, it eclipsing most blue |
| FAIRYTALES | Type of stories collected and published by the Brothers Grimm (10) |
| ELLIS | Philologist who was an inspiration for Pygmalion's professor and identified several English dialects, including Cumbrian, Pitmatic and that of the Smoggies; or, an author who explored yuppie nihilism |
| TOLKIEN | Fantasy writer, Inklings co-founder, literary scholar and philologist who coined or popularised numerous words including ent, eucatastrophe, dwarves, hobbit, mithril, orc, palantir, tween and warg (7) |
| ROGET | Word-loving English physician and philologist who, on retirement, turned his hand to compiling the thesaurus for which he is known today (5) |
| SHARP | Song hunter who collected thousands of folk ballads whilst cycling the countryside including Bruton Town, Green Broom, The Seeds of Love and The Sprig of Thyme (5) |
| FREUND | German philologist Wilhelm |
| EGONRONAY | Hungarian-born food critic who wrote and published a series of guides to British and Irish restaurants and hotels (4,5) |
| THANOS | Marvel villain who collected the Infinity Stones |
| BARTOK | Hungarian composer and pianist who collected folk music (6) |
| KITTY | Money collected and paid to the winner |
| IMPROVISED | Better ones collected and made up on the spot (10) |
| COMPOSED | Collected and wrote the score (8) |
| INFINITYSTONES | Gems collected and (spoiler alert!) used by Thanos in the Marvel movies |
| ROVER | The ___, play by Aphra Behn produced and published in two parts in 1677 and 1681 (5) |
