| KENKESEY | Author who, with his friends, famously formed the Merry Pranksters |
| ALLEN | Author who, with his wife Janet, wrote children's books include The Jolly Postman, _ Ahlberg (5) |
| ILF | What was the pseudonym of the Russian writer who, with Petrov, wrote the 1928 popular satirical nove |
| YETIS | The Abominable Snowman along with his friends and relatives, one presumes |
| SOUTHEY | Robert -; one of the three main Lake Poets, along with his friends Coleridge and Wordsworth (7) |
| GROOMSMAN | One wearing a matching bowtie with his friends, say |
| GALTON | Surname of the writer who, with 6 down, created 9 down's radio and TV world (6) |
| SIMPSON | Surname of the writer who, with 3 down, created 9 down's radio and TV world (7) |
| LSD | It was taken by the Merry Pranksters |
| KESEY | Ken, leader of the Merry Pranksters |
| TEDDY | Singer who, with his wife Pearl Carr, represented the UK in the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest, coming second with the song Sing, Little Birdie (5,7) |
| JOHNSON | Singer who, with his wife Pearl Carr, represented the UK in the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest, coming second with the song Sing, Little Birdie (5,7) |
| WEBER | One of the founders of modern sociology; or, the German physicist who invented the electromagnetic telegraph with his friend Carl Friedrich Gauss (5) |
| RAPHAEL | Italian painter who, with his studio, executed the cartoons for the Acts of the Apostles series of tapestries (7) |
| WILBURWRIGHT | American aviator who, with his brother Orville, is credited with inventing and building the first successful aeroplane (6,6) |
| AMUNDSEN | Explorer who, with his crew of four men and 16 remaining dogs out of a pack of 52, became the first human to reach the South Pole (8) |
| LAMB | What was the surname of Charles, the English essayist who, with his sister Mary, wrote Tales from Shakespeare? (4) |
| NORRISMCWHIRTER | Who, with his brother Ross, compiled the Guinness Book of Records? (6,9) |
| JOHNWESLEY | Anglican cleric who, with his brother, founded the Methodist Movement (4,6) |
| RICHARDSON | Actor who starred with his friend John Gielgud in Harold Pinter's play No Man's Land and in the film |
