| NIAMEY | Capital of 16D (6) |
| MONSAVENTINUS | One of seven in Rome, home of 16d, just south of a very large 8ac |
| ANSE | As I Lay Dying husband (anagram of 16d) |
| NICOLE | & 16D US author of novels Great House and The History of Love (6,6) |
| GEORGE | & 16D Speaker of the House of Commons from 1976-83 (6,6) |
| KIRITE | One of the great 6 - from New Zealand (4,2,6) (See 16D) |
| SHARON | & 16D Co-creator and co-star of television sitcoms Pulling and Catastrophe (6,6) |
| PHILIP | & 16D Narrator of Dickens novel Great Expectations (6,6) |
| SOPHIA | & 16D Heroine of 1749 Henry Fielding novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (6,7) |
| HUBBLE | Hookah (6-6) (see 16D) |
| BAMAKO | A Malian capital on the 16D (6) |
| ELMORE | & 16D Author of the novels Get Shorty and Freaky Deaky (6,7) |
| DONALD | & 16D English actor-manager who played the title role in 1954 film drama Svengali (6,6) |
| MARCUS | & 16D Jamaican Pan-Africanist leader who died in London in 1940 (6,6) |
| CAYMAN | & 16D Overseas territory of the UK in the Caribbean Sea whose capital is George Town |
| INLAND | & 16D 2006 film drama starring Laura Dern and Jeremy Irons (6,6) |
| SOCIAL | Do 16d and 1a in class (6) |
| SANDRA | & 16D US actress whose films include Speed, The Blind Side and Ocean's 8 (6,7) |
| MAUNDY | A few days before Easter (6,8) (see 16D) |
| COPPER | And 17 Constituent of constabulary chinaware? (11) (see 16D) |
