| GLENBAXTER | English cartoonist noted for his absurdist drawings which have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The Independent on Sunday |
| ROBINSON | W Heath ___, English cartoonist noted for his illustrations of elaborate inventions (8) |
| BLAKE | Quentin, English cartoonist noted for his collaborations with Roald Dahl (5) |
| CROSSWORDPUZZLE | Test of mental agility which first appeared in the New York World in 1913 (9,6) |
| MALKOVICH | Actor John _, has appeared in The New Pope and Space Force (9) |
| LEA | Actress Salonga who appeared in the new Broadway musical Here Lies Love |
| WAIN | Louis, English cartoonist noted for drawing cats, played by Benedict Cumberbatch in a 2021 film (4) |
| FATIMA | Where in Portugal is the Virgin Mary said to have appeared in 1917? (6) |
| PAULINEKAEL | US film critic born in 1919 noted for her reviews in 'The New Yorker' (7,4) |
| THELWELL | Norman -, cartoonist noted for humorous illustrations of rotund ponies in his books including Angels on Horseback and Penelope (8) |
| MAE | West once dubbed the "Queen of New York" in the New Yorker |
| THEWAYUPTOHEAVEN | A short story by Roald Dahl, originally published in The New Yorker, included in his 1960 collection Kiss Kiss |
| TONGA | Pacific nation who have appeared in all but one Rugby World Cup tournament |
| SCARFE | Gerald, English cartoonist who designed the animated sequences for the film Pink Floyd: The Wall (6) |
| SHEEP | These woolly ruminants have appeared in countless dreams |
| ADA | Lovelace called "the first tech visionary" in the New Yorker |
| HEATHROBINSON | Cartoonist noted for fantastic machinery |
| THEADDAMSFAMILY | Single-panel comic strip published in The New Yorker from 1938-1988, centred on Gomez and Morticia (3,6,6) |
| WASP | Target of some humor in The New Yorker |
| POEM | Offering in The New Yorker |
