| FAYWELDON | Author of The Love and Lives of a She-Devil, who died on January 4 |
| SACREDHEART | Symbol of the love and sacrifice of Jesus Christ (6,5) |
| LENIN | Russian leader who died on January 21, 1924 (5) |
| DRJOHNSON | Name by which the lexicographer who wrote A Dictionary of the English Language and Lives of the Most |
| CHARLESTON | A canvas of a farmhouse in Sussex, where art bloomed, a walled garden originally burgeoned and the love and creativity of Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and their fellow bohemian Bloomsburyites once flour |
| TSE | Monogram of the author of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| ZOOLOGY | Science of the behaviour and lives of animals (7) |
| BURJKHALIFA | Tallest building in the world, formally opened in the Downtown area of Dubai on January 4 2010 (4,7) |
| BURMA | This country, the capital of which is Rangoon, became a republic on January 4, 1948 |
| WELDON | Fay --, author of the novel 'The Life and Loves of a She-Devil' (6) |
| LOVES | "The Lives and ___ of a She-Devil" (Fay Weldon novel) |
| FAY | "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil" author Weldon |
| PATRICIAHODGE | ____ played Mary Fisher in The Life and Loves of a She-Devil |
| ONDAATJE | Author of a novel centred around the lives of a nurse, a sapper, a thief and eponymous "English" patient (8) |
| ALED | ___ Jones, Welsh host of The One Show who called the programme live on air to announce the arrival of her first child in January (4) |
| IRENE | The Forsyte Saga detailed the lives of a family from 1879 until the 1920s and starred Kenneth More a |
| SUSAN | The Forsyte Saga detailed the lives of a family from 1879 until the 1920s and starred Kenneth More a |
| JOLYON | The Forsyte Saga detailed the lives of a family from 1879 until the 1920s and starred Kenneth More a |
| RUBY | She's a gem of a girl and lives in Bury (4) |
| GAUR | Largest of the wild cattle, it has curving horns and lives in the mountain forests of Asia (4) |
