| AUBREY | Biographer whose Brief Lives features a collection of pen portraits of his contemporaries including Milton, Shakespeare and Raleigh (6) |
| BOUCHER | Rococo artist whose paintings include The Rising of the Sun, A Summer Pastoral, Charms of Country Life and portraits of his patroness Madame de Pompadour (7) |
| DORE | Artist noted for illustrations in classics by Dante, Cervantes, Rabelais, La Fontaine and Milton as well as works by many of his contemporaries (4) |
| POETA | Horace, to his contemporaries |
| SATIRES | 'Saturday Night Live' features |
| DIGITALSHORTS | "Saturday Night Live" features that aren't live |
| BOSWELL | Author who formed part of a club with his companion and biography subject Samuel Johnson and other contemporaries including Joshua Reynolds and Edmund Burke (7) |
| ALBANY | Antiquarian remembered for his book titled Brief Lives based on the lives of eminent people of the 1 |
| RAPHAEL | With contemporaries including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, master of the High Renaissance who painted The School of Athens (7) |
| WHISTLER | James Mcneill _, Americanborn artist whose most famous painting is a portrait of his mother (8) |
| WATTS | Victorian artist whose paintings include Hope, Love and Life and Choosing (a portrait of his wife Ellen Terry) (5) |
| BOULTON | Lunar Society co-founder who met contemporaries including Josiah Wedgwood, Joseph Priestley and business partner James Watt during the full moon (7) |
| ROYDOTRICE | British actor best known for his performance as John Aubrey in Brief Lives in 1967 (3,7) |
| RECORDINGANGEL | Biographer whose work is out of this world |
| PLUTARCH | Greek historian and biographer whose works include the Moralia (8) |
| STRACHEY | Lytton -, biographer whose works include 1918 volume Eminent Victorians (8) |
| MELVYN | Broadcaster and biographer whose first novel was published in 1965, ... Bragg |
| ANITA | Ms. Brookner, author of 1990 novel Brief Lives (5) |
| TRELLIS | Rose may climb over this river in 'Brief Lives' (7) |
| MAYFLIES | Winged insects with brief lives, the angler's friends (8) |
