| TENNIEL | Cartoonist who illustrated Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (7) |
| CHESHIRECAT | Grinning creature in the Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| MARCHHARE | Character in Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland depicted at the Hatter's mad tea-party with straw on his head (5,4) |
| QUENTIN | _ Blake, artist who illustrated a number of Roald Dahl's books (7) |
| KEEPING | Two-time winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal who illustrated many of Rosemary Sutcliff's novels for children (7) |
| SHEPARD | Artist who illustrated editions of Winnie-the-Pooh, The Secret Garden and Tom Brown's School Days (7) |
| DOUGLAS | Artist who illustrated James Wheldon Johnson's book God's Trombones and Alain Locke's The New Negro. |
| RACKHAM | Arthur ?, English artist who illustrated a 1905 edition of Rip Van Winkle |
| TREACLE | Type of well in which Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie lived in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) (7) |
| CARROLL | Pen name of the author who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (7) |
| TOOLATE | "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be ____" (The white rabbit, in the first words spoken in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) |
| DRINKME | Label on a potion in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (5,2) |
| SCARFE | Gerald ---, cartoonist who illustrated Pink Floyd's album The Wall (6) |
| PETERARNO | Cartoonist who illustrated more than 100 New Yorker covers |
| SEARLE | Ronald, English cartoonist who illustrated the Molesworth books (6) |
| MERCURY | The phrase "mad as a hatter" was used to describe the behavior of hat makers suffering from poisoning caused by exposure to this material. (The Hatter in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was a fiction |
| QUENTINBLAKE | Artist and writer who illustrated many of Roald Dahl's books (7,5) |
| MINTON | Artist who illustrated Elizabeth David's A Book of Mediterranean Food and French Country Cooking (6) |
| AMMAN | Capital of Jordan; or, a woodcut artist who illustrated The Book of Trades by cobbler Hans Sachs (5) |
| BLAKE | English poet William who illustrated his own works |
