| JAGGER | English sculptor of the 1923 Royal Artillery Memorial in Hyde Park (6) |
| CHANEY | US actor who played Quasimodo in the 1923 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| GUNNER | Private in the Royal Artillery (6) |
| LEMANS | A motor-racing circuit opened for the 1923 French Grand Prix in this town (2,4) |
| JEEVES | The -, 1923 novel by P G Wodehouse (10,6) |
| TAKING | 'The --', 1923 novel by John Masefield (6,2,5) |
| RARELY | Almost never count on being behind First Royal Artillery (6) |
| REMORA | Or for me to join the Royal Artillery I would have to be a sucker! |
| CANOVA | Sculptor of the Three Graces (6) |
| RAPIER | Weapon of Royal Artillery atop bridge support |
| CAMERA | Snapper arrived with Royal Artillery (6) |
| LEHAR | Hungarian composer of the 1923 operetta The Land of Smiles (5) |
| GODFREY | Sitcom character played by the writer of the 1923 play The Ghost Train (7) |
| JOHNMACLEOD | Scottish scientist; joint winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his part in discovering insulin (4,7) |
| MILLIKAN | Robert A ___, winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics (8) |
| MACLEOD | John --, joint winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (7) |
| SHAW | Writer of the 1923 play Saint Joan (4) |
| PHIDIAS | Sculptor of the statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World |
| BLANCHESWEET | Star of the 1923 film "Anna Christie" |
| EDWINLANDSEER | English painter and sculptor of the lions at the base of Nelson's Column (5,8) |
