| SEADOGS | Elizabeth I's band of swashbuckling privateers whose notable captains and explorers included John Davis, Francis Drake, Martin Frobisher, Humphrey Gilbert, Richard Grenville, John Hawkins and Walter R |
| LEADERS | Captains and commanders (7) |
| COOK | James ...., navigator and explorer included in 18's list of Yorkshire greats (4) |
| BOP | Dance is band leader's work |
| FOREIGNER | I Want to Know What Love Is band (9) |
| SHELL | Outer layer of a bird's egg; or, a series of county guidebooks whose contributors included John Betjeman, Paul Nash and John Piper (5) |
| KENILWORTH | ____ Castle, fortification in Warwickshire whose owners included John of Gaunt and Henry V (10) |
| IONESCO | Dramatist and leading exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd whose notable plays include The Bald Soprano (or The Bald Prima Donna) and Rhinoceros (7) |
| BOOK | "The Three Musketeers" by Alexander Dumas is a ___ about the adventures of a trio of swashbuckling travelers |
| BIGSIX | Group of civil rights activists that included John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr. |
| MAMACASS | Singer in a band that also included John Phillips and Denny Doherty (the "Papas") |
| ROSEANNE | Sitcom whose stars included John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf (8) |
| POLONIUS | Father of Laertes and Ophelia in Hamlet whose notable lines include "neither a borrower nor a lender be" and "to thine own self be true" (8) |
| WHISTLER | Painter and illustrator whose notable works include a depiction of Ashcombe House (his friend Cecil Beaton's former home in Wiltshire), a 58ft-long mural in the dining room at Plas Newydd and a mural |
| JONES | Surname of the architect Inigo whose notable works include Banqueting House, Whitehall and the Queen |
| RODIN | French sculptor whose notable works include The Burghers of Calais, The Kiss and The Thinker (5) |
| SARTO | Florentine painter of the High Renaissance whose notable works include The Nativity of the Virgin (1514) |
| ANDREADEL | Florentine painter of the High Renaissance whose notable works include The Nativity of the Virgin (1514) |
| PARKINSON | Interview show whose notable guests included Muhammad Ali and Billy Connolly |
| SHADOW | Profile of swashbuckling leader - "Home and away, pull off wins!" (6) |
