| HERMANMELVILLE | Author whose masterpiece only started selling well after he died |
| SKIPPER | Captain started selling fish (7) |
| OBSCURE | Gloomy note found in safe after he died |
| MORSE | 1975 inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (103 years after he died) |
| BYRON | Which English poet became a Greek national hero after he died in 1824? (5) |
| OBLITERATE | Fellow who can spell: after he's died, remove all traces (10) |
| HORACEGREELEY | 63 of the 165 faithless votes ever cast were taken away from this newspaper publisher, after he died just before the Electoral College was to meet in 1872 |
| OCTET | Group ends talks that have only started after a month |
| HITECH | Cutting-edge music, selling well with City hipsters at first (2-4) |
| WILLIAMHOGARTH | Artist and engraver whose masterpiece is Marriage a la Mode (7,7) |
| WREN | English architect whose masterpiece was St. Paul's Cathedral (4) |
| NEUMANN | Johann Balthasar ___, German rococo architect whose masterpiece is the church of Vierzehnheiligen in Bavaria |
| HOLST | English composer whose masterpiece was The Planets, written between 1914 and 1917 (5) |
| PAGED | Called for passenger who's only started getting on (5) |
| TURNIN | Go to bed when, in town, the night has only started |
| HOT | Selling well, like a single |
| HOLBEIN | Court portraitist to Henry VIII whose masterpiece The Ambassadors depicts allegorical items including an anamorphic skull, globes, a torquetum and a lute with a broken string (7) |
| TROUBLESHOOTERS | People have always been brought in from the outside to fix problems, but we only started calling the |
| SANDROBOTTICELLI | Italian painter of the Early Renaissance whose masterpieces include The Birth of Venus and Primavera |
| BOTTICELLI | Sandro ___, Florentine painter of the Early Renaissance whose masterpieces include The Birth of Venus and Primavera |
