| BROWNE | Author of Religio Medici and Urn Burial who coined some 800 words including ambidextrous, cryptography, electricity and hallucination (6) |
| JACKINTHEBOX | Sailor apparently ready for burial who suddenly jumps up (4-2-3-3) |
| CHARLESIX | Catherine de' Medici and Henry II's son who ruled as king of France from 1560 until his death in 1574 (7,1,1) |
| TUILERIES | Former Parisian palace designed for Catherine of Medici and burnt down in 1871 |
| SUADERE | To urge, advocate: "tantum religio potuit ____ malorum" DRN 1.101 of Iphigenia's death |
| CARROLL | Pen name of an author, puzzle inventor and Oxford mathematics don who coined portmanteau words including bandersnatch, burble, chortle, frabjous, frumious, galumph, jabberwocky and mimsy (7) |
| ELIOT | Pen name of the novelist Mary Ann Evans who coined or popularised words including chintzy, lampshade, lunchtime and pop (5) |
| DAHL | Author of scrumdiddlyumptious tales squibbled with his unique gobblefunk vocabulary of whizzpopping words, including biffsquiggled, fizzwiggler, snozzcumber and whiffswiddle (4) |
| 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) |
| ANTONYMS | Term, translating as "against a name", for the semantic "yin and yang" of opposite words, including happy/sad, hot/cold, light/dark and love/hate (8) |
| URDU | Indic language closely related to Hindi; source of English words including khaki and pyjamas (4) |
| EARN | Homophone of erne and urn (4) |
| BOTHHANDS | Contested at the 1912 Olympics, a variant of some throwing events, possibly favouring ambidextrous athletes |
| UNICORN | An unusual coin and urn show Scotland's heraldry animal (7) |
| UNDERCANVAS | Two foreign articles, container and urn, shortly in a tent? (5,6) |
| ORATORY | Colourful words including one between yellow and blue |
| WHEELS | Circular frames revolving on axles that gave rise to words including the Sanskrit "chakra", the Latin "circus" and the Greek "cycle" (6) |
| ERIK | Who plays George Turner in 800 Words? (First name) |
| THOMSON | 800 Words and Packed to the Rafters actor, Erik ___ (7) |
| MANON | Actress who stars in 800 Words, ... Blackman (5) |
