| SAINTSIMON | French diplomat and chronicler whose monumental Memoires provide a candid account of life at the Versailles court of Louis XIV (5-5) |
| STALBANS | Herts. cathedral town on the Ver (*bans salt) (2,6) |
| ASHCROFT | Frances Mary --, author of 'Life at the Extremes' (8) |
| HOLINSHED | 16th-century chronicler whose work is thought to be the basis of some of Shakespeare's plays (9) |
| MANDEVILLE | Apparent "St Albans-born knight" and "armchair traveller" whose monumental 14th-century travelogue was actually a patchwork of other writers' works (10) |
| WATSON | Dr John -, Sherlock Holmes' assistant and chronicler/narrator of most of his cases (6) |
| AMBROISE | Norman poet and chronicler of the Third Crusade (8) |
| DELESSEPS | Ferdinand -, 19th-century French diplomat and developer of the Suez Canal (2,7) |
| TALLEYRAND | ___ , French diplomat and statesman (1754 1838 (10) |
| BENDA | Bohemian composer and virtuoso violinist who worked for much of his life at the court of the flautist future Frederick the Great (5) |
| DOUGLAS | Prince Hal spares whose "Scottish" life at the end of the play? |
| LESSEPS | de -; French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (7) |
| MAST | "Two Years Before the ___" (RH Dana's memoir of life at sea) |
| STRENGTH | Sara Henderson's second novel of life at Bullo River Station, The ... In Us All |
| PEARSON | Lester B. ___, Canadian diplomat and prime minister (1963-8); the first Canadian recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1957) (7) |
| JAVIER | Peruvian diplomat and politician who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991 (6) |
| COFFEETEAORME | Trudy Baker's account of life as a stewardess |
| PEIG | Famous account of life on the Blasket Islands. (4) |
| CASANOVA | Italian adventurer whose Memoires told of his many amorous encounters across 18th Century Europe |
| PRIME | In the ___ of life; at one's peak |
