| LYLY | 16th-century writer whose style of prose gave rise to the term euphuism (4) |
| FRANCOISRABELAIS | 16th-century author whose surname was adapted into a term describing bawdy writing |
| COLLINS | Wilkie ---, 19th-Century writer whose works include The Woman In White and The Moonstone (7) |
| METER | Point to the term when you want it to measure with (5) |
| BCE | Calender dating system that is used as an alternative to the term BC (1,1,1) |
| IOTA | Ninth letter of the Greek alphabet, which gave rise to the ninth letter of the English alphabet (4) |
| PEEL | Baker's wooden shovel; skin or zest of a citrus fruit; or, the prime minister whose first name gave rise to the nickname "bobby" for a policeman (4) |
| DODO | Bird (whose style of very out of fashion) (4) |
| JAZZ | A music of black American origin whose styles include Dixieland and bebop (4) |
| DEAL | "I agree to the terms" |
| FORD | and 13AC,14AC, Twentieth-century writer traps crazy bull between two identical cars (4,5,4) |
| LEAR | Edward ___, 19th-century writer and artist known for his nonsense literature (4) |
| ANJOU | A former province of France, in the Loire Valley, the ruling family of which gave rise to the Plantagenets of England (5) |
| ORGAN | "King of instruments" according to Mozart which gave rise to the phrase "pull out all the stops" (5) |
| ENID | - Blyton, twentith century writer |
| ORNE | 19th-century writer Sarah ___ Jewett |
| WATTEAU | A key figure in the Rococo art movement whose style of painting was categorised by the French Academy in 1717 as "fete galante" (7) |
| THOMASARNOLD | Headmaster of Rugby School whose style of teaching was described in Tom Brown's School Days (6,6) |
| GROUCHO | Nickname of Julius Henry Marx that gave rise to the famous line, 'I am a Marxist of the ... variety' |
| SUNRISE | Time of day in the title of a Claude Monet painting which gave rise to the name Impressionism (7) |
