| LANDSEER | Edwin -; artist who painted The Monarch of the Glen and was the godfather of Edwin Lutyens (8) |
| MACKENZIE | Sir Compton -; author of novels including Buttercups and Daisies, The Monarch of the Glen and Whisky Galore (9) |
| LINNAEUS | Latinised name of the botanist who formalised binomial nomenclature and was the first to remove bats from the birds and classify them under mammals (8) |
| CLAUDIUS | Rome's fourth emperor who launched the conquest of Britain and was the subject of a 1976 TV series |
| BEAUFORT | Lady Margaret -; Henry VII's mother who founded two Cambridge colleges and was the patroness of William Caxton and his successor Wynkyn de Worde (8) |
| HUMBOLDT | Climbing Andean mountains and exploring Amazonian rainforests, naturalist who wrote Cosmos and was the first to postulate climate change (8) |
| OPIUMDEN | Drug establishment at the centre of Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood (5,3) |
| NEWDELHI | Indian city, large parts of which were designed by British architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker (3,5) |
| BADBUNNY | Moscow Mule rapper who both hosted and was the musical act in a 2023 SNL episode: 2 wds. |
| LANDLESS | Helena, orphan in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (8) |
| CENOTAPH | The ___, war memorial in Whitehall, London, designed by Edwin Lutyens (8) |
| VALENCIA | Glen and I can squeeze an orange (8) |
| TRIANGLE | Glen and I study art from three sides (8) |
| RIESLING | Glen and Iris spilled white wine |
| JAMESHAYTER | Actor who played Samuel Pickwick in the 1952 film The Pickwick Papers and was the original narrator of the TV adverts for Mr Kipling cakes (5,6) |
| IRONS | Actor who starred in films including The Mission and Red Sparrow and was the voice of Scar in The Lion King (5) |
| ANNE | With the favourites Lady Sarah Churchill and Lady Abigail Masham, Queen who lived and died at Kensington Palace and was the last Stuart monarch (4) |
| HORDERN | Actor who narrated the television series Paddington and was the voice of Badger in the 1980s film ve |
| HAYES | Middlesex town that became part of the London Borough of Hillingdon in 1965 and was the erstwhile home of EMI Records |
| ALDRIN | Surname of the US astronaut with the given name of Edwin - his nickname was Buzz |
