| THEBIGAPPLE | City's nickname popularised in the 1920s by John X Fitz Gerald of the Morning Telegraph which refers to the city's racecourses (3,3,4) |
| BIGAPPLE | Nickname popularized by a New York Morning Telegraph sportswriter in the 1920s, with "the" |
| CHARLESTON | Kind of foxtrot popularised in the 1920s (10) |
| WELLAIMED | Coming straight to the point, outside of Ms Fitz-gerald, I'm married (4-5) |
| SARAH | Great Aust squash player, Fitz-Gerald |
| CAMBRENSIS | Giraldus ___, Latin name for the priest and historian Gerald of Wales |
| OHARA | Gerald of Tara |
| CROQUET | Lawn game played with mallets and hoops that was popularised in the UK by John Jaques when he packaged the game with sets of rules in the 1850s (7) |
| TAMPA | Coastal city of W Florida in which the Cuban sandwich was popularised in the 1890s (5) |
| VRI | Coming from the Latin, what is the abbreviation for Queen Victoria which refers to her as "Victoria Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India"? (1,1,1) |
| DARKCONTINENT | Description of Africa popularised in the title of an 1878 book by Henry Morton Stanley |
| OMARKHAYYAM | Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer, noted for the Rubaiyat, a collection of quatrains, popularised in the West by Edward FitzGerald |
| GHETTO | This word is derived from the Italian dialect form gheto, "foundry," which refers to the Venetian island where Jews were forced to live during the 16th century. The English term came into use by 1611. |
| AFGHAN | Style of coat popularised in the UK by the Beatles |
| BANJO | What musical instrument of African origin was popularised in the US by slaves? (5) |
| GLAM | Style of rock music popularised in the early 1970s by Slade, Gary Glitter and Roxy Music (4) |
| DOMBEYANDSON | Novel by Charles Dickens, the title of which refers to a shipping company (6,3,3) |
| HORSENS | Danish city in the east of the Jutland peninsula, popularised in recent years due to concerts by act |
| ONEUPMANSHIP | The knack of gaining advantage over others which Stephen Potter popularised in his book of the same name (3-9) |
| MINISKIRT | Women's garment with a hemline well above the knee, popularised in the 1960s (9) |
