| NOAM | A forename of the US philosopher and linguist born in 1928 (4) |
| FAYE | Forename of the US actor who played Bonnie Parker in a famous 1967 film (4) |
| RAND | Ayn ___ (1905-82), Russian- born US philosopher and writer (4) |
| BRUCE | Scottish explorer, archaeologist and linguist best known for tracing the origins of the Blue Nile in |
| PUTNAM | Hilary ***** US philosopher and mathematician born in 1926 (6) |
| OSBERT | A forename of the author of A Place of One's Own who is depicted in a painting by John Singer Sargent with his parents and his siblings Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell (6) |
| NGAIO | A forename of the author Dame Edith Marsh who penned the Roderick Alleyn detective novels including her classic Christmas murder mystery Tied Up in Tinsel (5) |
| BAS | Degs. for historians and linguists |
| ERIC | A forename of athlete Liddell, comedian Morecambe, musician Clapton or travel writer Newby (4) |
| MAYA | ___ Angelou, U.S. memoirist and poet born in 1928 (4) |
| BENJAMIN | A style of 19th-century overcoat; a spicebush; a youngest or favourite son, in allusion to Genesis; a forename of Baron Britten of Aldeburgh; or, the bunny cousin of Peter Rabbit (8) |
| LOIS | A forename for "Miss Moneypenny"? (4) |
| ADA | A forename of Lord Byron's daughter Countess of Lovelace, who said that the analytical engine "weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves" (3) |
| LEONARDO | A forename of mathematician Fibonacci, who is noted for his number sequence reflected in spiral patterns observed in flowers, fruits, hurricanes, pine cones, seed heads and shells (8) |
| EDWARD | A forename of "Longshanks", the "Black Prince" or Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's eldest son "Bertie" (6) |
| THEAMUSGRAVE | Scottish composer (born in 1928) of the opera Mary Queen of Scots |
| DOMINO | Fats, US jazz and rock-and-roll pianist born in 1928 (6) |
| MARCUSE | Herbert ****. German-US philosopher born in 1898 (7) |
| HELEN | A forename of Michele Novotna (7) |
| KEN | A forename of Sir Percy Blakeney (3) |
