| BECHER | Captain ?, rider of Conrad in the 1839 Grand National who gives his name to a famous brook at Aintre |
| NAGEL | Conrad in "The Kiss" |
| SMIKE | Crippled character in the 1839 Charles Dickens book Nicholas Nickleby (5) |
| NIKOLATESLA | Croatian-born US inventor (1856-1943) who gives his name to the derived SI unit of magnetic flux density (6,5) |
| WHEATSTONE | Sir Charles ___, English physicist who gives his name to a device used to measure an unknown electrical resistance (10) |
| GROTE | Which MP for the city of London wrote the eight-volume History of Greece (1846-56) and gives his name to a prominent Adelaide Street? (5) |
| REAUMUR | Which scientist gives his name to a thermometer that defines the freezing point of water as zero and the boiling point as 80? (7) |
| STENDHAL | Pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle, author of the 1839 novel The Charterhouse of Parma (8) |
| KINGLEAR | Shakespearian tragedy about a monarch who gives his realm to his daughters (4, 4) |
| OCCAM | William of ____ gave his name to a famous methodological principle |
| MALTHUS | Economist Thomas Robert who lent his name to a famous "trap" |
| DOCTORFAUSTUS | Christopher Marlowe play in which the titular character gives his soul to the devil (6,7) |
| SWEARER | He gives his oath as we're travelling to the approach to the capital, Rome (7) |
| NORM | The gentleman, on return, gives his name (4) |
| IRISHWOMAN | A national who is about to get married in another country |
| BRIANLAUDRUP | Danish national who played for Rangers in the 1990s before moving to Chelsea (5,7) |
| ALLEN | US star who gives his voice to Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear, Tim _ (5) |
| GENTLEFARMER | One who gives his cows lots of TLC? |
| TRIER | One who gives his all in Germany (5) |
| AXMINSTER | Devon town giving its name to a famous type of carpet (9) |
