| ANNEFRANK | Diarist, born 1929, who wrote one of the world's most widely known books (4,5) |
| NAVAJO | The most widely known U.S. Marine "code talkers" used this language as an unbreakable code during World War II, though many other Native Americans used their languages too. |
| PEPYS | Famous diarist born off Fleet Street, London, in 1633 (5) |
| SINCLAIRLEWIS | Babbitt was one of this US author's best-known books |
| BERRYGORDY | Producer born in 1929 who founded the Motown record label (5,5) |
| PETERMAY | Cricketer born in 1929 who captained Surrey and England (5,3) |
| CLASSICS | Form 1 starts to consider some well-known books (8) |
| POPEYE | Sailor, b. 1929, who ate spinach (6) |
| THEFORSYTESAGA | John Galsworthy's best-known books |
| OSLER | Medical educator Sir William who wrote: "One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the |
| ESPERANTO | The world's most widely spoken artificial language, devised in 1887 (9) |
| GREATWALL | Series of fortifications in China, along part of which one of the world's most challenging marathons |
| MONTEVERDI | 16th Century Italian composer who wrote one of the earliest operas, L'Orfeo (10) |
| PIERRETTE | Les Noces de ___; painting by Pablo Picasso that was purchased for over $51m in 1989 making it one of the world's most expensive paintings (9) |
| SCOTS | - pine; national tree of the country with the capital Edinburgh; the world's most widely distributed conifer (5) |
| ASTEN | Author who wrote "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" |
| IKEA | Producer of the world's most widely read consumer catalog |
| MARK | He wrote one of the 4 gospels |
| GARFIELD | What is the world's most widely syndicated cartoon strip? (8) |
| ARABICA | What is the world's most widely grown coffee bean? (7) |
