| DIOR | Couturier who worked as an illustrator for Figaro Illustre before founding his eponymous label and creating the "New Look" (4) |
| GOREY | Apt surname for an illustrator known for his spooky pen-and-ink drawings |
| DAVIDGEFFEN | Eponymous label-founding music exec |
| INKSTAINED | Like an illustrator's fingertips, maybe |
| ARMANI | Italian founder of two eponymous labels |
| CLOUGH | Victorian poet who penned the verse-novel Amours de Voyage and worked as an assistant to his wife's first cousin, Florence Nightingale (6) |
| ALASTAIR | Which Campbell is a journalist and author who worked as a spin doctor for Tony Blair? (8) |
| TSO | General who is perhaps more known for his eponymous chicken dish than for his military accomplishments |
| KIMPHILBY | Member of British intelligence who worked as a spy for the Soviet Union in the 1930s, '40s and '50s (3,6) |
| SMILES | Samuel -; author of Self-Help, Character, Thrift and Duty who worked as a newspaper editor, a doctor and a railway secretary (6) |
| FEZZIWIG | Mr ___, character in Charles Dickens story A Christmas Carol for whom Scrooge worked as an apprentice (8) |
| PAINTED | Worked as an artist? Yes, and little Philip ain't educated (7) |
| VERMEER | Which great Dutch artist worked as an art dealer, his works include Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665) |
| MARATHONMAN | 1976 thriller featuring Laurence Olivier as a war criminal who worked as a dentist: 2 wds. |
| IMOGENHOLST | A composer's daughter and a composer herself, who worked as Benjamin Britten's assistant |
| LARKIN | Poet who worked as a librarian at the University of Hull for many years |
| APHRABEHN | 17th-century playwright who worked as a spy for Charles II (5,4) |
| SCARFE | Gerald __, English satirical cartoonist on the Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker |
| NELSONRIDDLE | ____, a 1A player in Tommy Dorsey's orchestra, later worked as an arranger, with Frank Sinatra and Linda Ronstadt among others |
| YVESSTLAURENT | Which designer founded his eponymous fashion label in 1962, with his legacy including the "Le Smoking" tuxedo suit for women? (4,2,7) |
