| MENCKEN | HL- Baltimore-born writer; co-founder of magazine The American Mercury in 1924 (7) |
| RUSHTON | Willie ---, English cartoonist, comedian and writer; co-founder of Private Eye (7) |
| DELILAH | Baltimore-born Campbells Cash and Carry advertiser and Beauty and the Beast panellist (7) |
| ONMERIT | As alternative home for music magazine, The Independent's initially rejected as worthy (2,5) |
| SPYRING | Covert group put last bit of mercury in water source (3,4) |
| UXORIUS | A wife's man, an accusation directed at Aeneas by Mercury in Carthage (Aeneid 4.266) |
| FREDDIE | Mercury in rock |
| EVE | Farmer, author, co-founder and first president of the Soil Association (3,7) |
| IMPROBABLE | “Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the ____” (HL Mencken) |
| STEELE | Sir Richard --, co-founder of the magazine 'The Spectator' (6) |
| CHRIS | First name of Hall of Fame inductee - author, co-star of 'A Passion for Angling' (5) |
| INCH | Unit of pressure exerted by a column of mercury in a barometer; one twelfth of a foot or 2.54 cm; or, a unit of rainfall in meteorology (4) |
| SAGAN | Which US science writer co-wrote and presented the 13-part television series Cosmos: A Personal Voya |
| GILES | Food writer co-hosting Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond The Lobby With Monica Galetti, _ Coren (5) |
| READERSDIGEST | Monthly US general-interest family magazine, the UK edition of which ceased publication in April after 86 years (7,6) |
| WEBB | Sidney, British economist and social historian who co-founded the magazine The New Statesman with hi |
| NEWYORKER | A person from the Big Apple may read the local magazine, The ... (3,6) |
| SHOCKWAVE | Cause of death aboard the HL Hunley |
| ADULTERY | "____ is the application of democracy to love" (HL Mencken) |
| KOMITAJI | In returning characters framed by HL, don't mention a rebel |
