| WODEHOUSE | Author whose fictional locale Blandings is thought to have been partly inspired by Sudeley Castle (9) |
| ISAAC | Forename of a polymath whose formulation of gravitational theory is said to be partly inspired by the falling of a Woolsthorpe pome (5) |
| PARR | Queen consort of England who, following the death of her husband Henry VIII, married Thomas Seymour and retreated to Sudeley Castle accompanied by Lady Jane Grey (4) |
| ELEANOR | ___ Fanyinka, Holby City actress whose fictional alter ego is Morven Digby (7) |
| ELIOT | Novelist whose fictional town St Oggs is based on Gainsborough (5) |
| AKIN | Shaking at having been partly related to it? (4) |
| LHASA | Bill has always been partly in Tibet(5) |
| VERMEER | Dutch master whose treatment of shadow and light in his paintings including Girl Interrupted at her Music, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Astronomer and The Lacemaker is thought to have been aided by |
| SNOOKER | This cue game, played on a billiard table with unnumbered balls, is thought to have been invented by |
| PACHACUTI | First ruler of the Inca Empire (1438-71), for whom Machu Picchu is thought to have been built (9) |
| YOUCANCALLMEAL | Song by Paul Simon released in 1986 partly inspired by a trip to South Africa (3,3,4,2,2) |
| WILDCAT | This untamed cat, which is native to Eurasia and Africa, is thought to have given rise to the domestic cat. |
| DALLAS | Vice president after whom a U.S. city is thought to have been named |
| BROADWAY | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Boogie Woogie, 1943 painting by Piet Mondrian, partly inspired by the city grid of Manhattan (8) |
| PHARAOH | The first true one is thought to have been Menes (or Narmer) who ruled around the third or fourth millennium BC (7) |
| EDENHILLS | Which Adelaide foothills suburb is thought to have been named after the barque an early resident, William Detmar Cook, was master of? (4,5) |
| PLEASEDONTEATTHEDAISIES | 1960 comedy film starring Doris Day and David Niven, partly inspired by a book of the same name by Jean Kerr |
| BDS | Economic protest movement partly inspired by the anti-apartheid fight in South Africa, for short |
| PALESTINE | Area of the eastern Mediterranean thought to have been named by Greeks around 2500 years ago (9) |
| ISLAND | Kirrin -; fictional locale explored by Enid Blyton's Famous Five gang that was inspired by the Dorset coast (6) |
