| BALLANTYNE | Author of some 100 adventure novels including The Coral Island, a book said to have inspired Robert Louis Stevenson and J. M. Barrie (10) |
| KAMA | "___ Sutra" (book said to be written by a celibate man) |
| COOKSON | Author of some 100 books including The Cinder Path and those in the Tilly Trotter trilogy (7) |
| WILSON | Author of some 100 books for children, including those featuring Hetty Feather and Tracy Beaker (6) |
| THOMSON | Poet whose The Seasons inspired Robert Bloomfield, Joseph Haydn, Joshua Reynolds and others (7) |
| MILITANTTENDENCY | Entryist group within the Labour Party that inspired Robert Lindsay's character Michael Murray in Alan Bleasdale's TV drama G.B.H. |
| FOSSIL | Any one of the prehistoric remains collected from Lyme Regis by Mary Anning - the palaeontologist said to have inspired the tongue-twister "She sells seashells on the seashore" (6) |
| ROUNDHOUSE | Traditional lock-up on or near a village green or marketplace, such as that in Castle Cary with a domed roof said to have inspired the shape of the British police custodian helmet (10) |
| ANNE | A queen of the Stuart dynasty whose skill in lacemaking, or lace itself, is said to have inspired one of the names for cow-parsley (4) |
| CARLYLE | Scottish historian whose book about the French Revolution is said to have inspired A Tale of Two Cit |
| IMPALER | Vlad the - - -, nickname of a Romanian ruler said to have inspired the novel Dracula (7) |
| DUMAS | French author who wrote a number of adventure novels including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After (5) |
| COURT | Fyne -; National Trust-owned garden in the Quantocks once home to Andrew Crosse, the scientist said to have inspired Mary Shelley to create Frankenstein (5) |
| APPLE | What kind of object is said to have inspired Isaac Newton to formulate his theory of gravitation? (5) |
| FLAG | A piece of bunting with distinctive colours and a design such as a border, canton, saltire, skull and crossbones or stripes; or, a yellow iris thought to have inspired the fleur-de-lis (4) |
| ORCZY | Baroness Emma -; author of adventure novels including The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Emperor's Candlesti |
| VERNE | Author of adventure novels including Five Weeks in a Balloon, Around the World in Eighty Days and The Mysterious Island (5) |
| PURBECK | Isle of ; peninsula on the Jurassic Coast with landmarks including Durdle Door and Corfe Castle, said to have inspired many books by Enid Blyton (7) |
| ISAAC | First name of the physicist whose apple tree at Woolsthorpe Manor is said to have inspired his law of universal gravitation (5) |
| VLAD | __ the Impaler, said to have inspired the character of Count Dracula (4) |
