| NOAMCHOMSKY | American linguist, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer who joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955 |
| MEMO | Staf f note |
| HELENKELLER | American author and lecturer who was blind and deaf from infancy (5,6) |
| KELLER | Helen --, American author and lecturer who was blind and deaf from infancy (6) |
| NOAM | Linguist and cognitive scientist Chomsky |
| NIDA | Noted American linguist |
| SAMUELCLEMENS | Real name of the author, publisher and lecturer who created Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (6,7) |
| MELBOURNE | This writer and lecturer, prefacing book on our Tyneside PM of former days (9) |
| LENAHORNE | American singer, dancer, actress and civil rights activist who joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of 16 in 1933 (4,5) |
| CAMPBELL | Surname of Tim who was the first ever winner of The Apprentice and who joined the show as an adviser in 2022 (8) |
| GRAMPARSONS | American singer, songwriter and musician who joined The Byrds in 1968 and formed The Flying Burrito Brothers with fellow Byrd Chris Hillman in 1969 |
| COPIALE | In 2011 a team of Swedish and American linguists applied statistics-based translation techniques to crack one of the most stubborn of codes. This 18th-century manuscript turned out to be a detailed de |
| ENNIS | Darragh, Irish scientist who joined The Chase in 2020 and is nicknamed The Menace (5) |
| EARNING | Finding out lecturer who had gone was making money (7) |
| ITERATE | Learned types had to do without lecturer who had to repeat things (7) |
| ABELARD | Peter, lecturer who fell in love with his pupil Heloise (7) |
| HARANGUER | A lot of grim vexation about university lecturer who's aggressive? (9) |
| PLAN | Devise a scheme to criticise a lecturer who's infiltrating (4) |
| ALHORFORD | The 36-year-old from the Dominican Republic who joined the NBA in 2007 but didn't get a chance to play in the finals till 2022. (2,7) |
| LYNPAUL | Singer who joined the The New Seekers in 1970 and featured on hits such as I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing |
