| TENNIEL | Alice's Adventures In Wonderland illustrator, Sir John _ (7) |
| GIELGUD | Sir John ___, Shakespearean actor (7) |
| TAVENER | Sir John __, composer of The Protecting Veil (1988) (7) |
| EVERETT | Sir John _ Millais. artist whose pictures include Bubbles (7) |
| STAINER | Sir John ___, English composer (7) |
| SACKBUT | Sir John's draught, but it's rarely blown in the wind (7) |
| DULWICH | District in the London borough of Southwark, site of a picture gallery designed by Sir John Soane (7) |
| BARONET | Title carried by the likes of Sir John Fowler, Sir William McAlpine and Daniel Gooch (7) |
| BUBBLES | 1886 painting by Sir John Everett Millais (7) |
| WINDSOR | The Merry Wives _, Shakespeare comedy featuring Sir John Falstaff (7) |
| TREACLE | Type of well in which Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie lived in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) (7) |
| TAISHAN | Forename of the British portrait artist Schierenberg, commissioned to paint Sir John Mortimer (3-4) |
| TOOLATE | "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be ____" (The white rabbit, in the first words spoken in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) |
| CARROLL | Pen name of the author who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (7) |
| MERCURY | The phrase "mad as a hatter" was used to describe the behavior of hat makers suffering from poisoning caused by exposure to this material. (The Hatter in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was a fiction |
| HURT | Sir John ___ 1940-2017, English actor awarded CBE in 2004 (4) |
| VANBRUGH | Sir John _, English architect and dramatist who designed Blenheim Palace (8) |
| MAJOR | One-time British Prime Minister, Sir John _ (5) |
| BARBIROLLI | Sir John ___, eminent Halle Orchestra conductor (10) |
| ABBOTT | Sir John ______ |