| WATKINS | BBC1's Really Wild Show host Howie ... describes himself as a 'Performance biologist' |
| BRANSON | Virgin Group founder known as "Dr Yes" who describes himself as a "tieloathing adventurer and troubl |
| NERD | No longer an insult: Like many other superthinkers, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos proudly describes himself as a ___ |
| MANDEL | Talk-show host Howie |
| SPOONER | Did he describe himself as a O21O, or clan of the moth? (7) |
| WILLIAM | Forename of a Lake poet who described glow-worms as Earth-born stars, an evening as beauteous and calm, a multitude of golden daffodils as a host and a crowd and himself as a lonely floating cloud (7) |
| AHAB | Melville character who describes himself as "more a demon than a man" |
| MICHAELASTRACHAN | TV presenter whose programmes have included The Hitman and Her and The Really Wild Show |
| CHRISPACKHAM | English naturalist best known for presenting The Really Wild Show and Springwatch (5,7) |
| LOSANGELES | Farzad Kohan, who describes himself as an abstract painter, is based in this California city. |
| ERIC | Animated character Cartman who describes himself as "big-boned" |
| MICHAELA | TV presenter whose programmes have included The Hitman and Her and The Really Wild Show (8,8) |
| STRACHAN | TV presenter whose programmes have included The Hitman and Her and The Really Wild Show (8,8) |
| TOOTSIE | 1982 film starring Dustin Hoffman as an actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role (7) |
| KENT | 'King Lear' character who disguises himself as a peasant |
| LIFEPEER | Prisoner about to relieve himself as a lord (4,4) |
| ADAM | Actor West who plays himself as a mayor on "Family Guy" |
| OCHS | Phil who described himself as a "singing journalist" |
| BRENDANBEHAN | Irish poet who described himself as a "daylight atheist" |
| JASPERJOHNS | American contemporary artist who played himself as a kleptomaniac in The Simpsons |
