| JONASMEKAS | Filmmaker and critic who has been called the godfather of American avant-garde cinema |
| JIMMCLEAN | Jack has heads of media and logistics collected by avant-garde cinema manager (3,6) |
| ARTHOUSE | Avant-garde cinema |
| RITUALS | Opera in five parts by American avant-garde composer John Zorn premiered at the Bayreuth Opera Festival in 1988 |
| MANRAY | American avant-garde artist |
| NICHOLAS | ___ I, who has been called "the emperor who froze Russia for 30 years" (8) |
| TATE | Influencer who has been called the King of Toxic Masculinity |
| DAVIDSTARKEY | Historian who has been called "the rudest man in Britain" |
| ADA | Lovelace who has been called the first computer programmer |
| COURTYARD | Enclosed ground attached to a house. Palma, Mallorca, which has been called "the city of patios", has many impressive examples tucked away in its old town streets (9) |
| ANTIOCH | Seleucus I Nicator founded this city, which has been called the "cradle of Christianity" (7) |
| BRAIN | It has been called "the most complex object in the known universe" |
| PUN | Joke that has been called "the lowest of all wit" |
| BROWN | James ___ Cold Sweat African-American singer who is lovingly called the Godfather of Soul |
| BARRISTER | A lawyer who has been called to the bar, qualified to plead in the higher courts (9) |
| LATIN | Shakira has been called "the Queen of ___ Pop" |
| EUROPA | Which Belfast hotel has been called the "world's most bombed hotel"? (6) |
| TELFAR | Genderless fashion brand whose best-selling Shopping Bag has been called the Bushwick Birkin |
| KENNETHBRANAGH | British filmmaker and actor who played the role of Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, and whose films include Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Dunkirk and Hamlet (7,7) |
| HAYDN | Which Joseph has been called "Father of the symphony and the string quartet"? (5) |
