| THOMASARNOLD | Headmaster of Rugby School whose style of teaching was described in Tom Brown's School Days (6,6) |
| LECTURING | University style of teaching |
| ARNOLD | Historian and former headmaster of Rugby School immortalised in Tom Brown's School Days (6) |
| THOMASHUGHES | Author of Tom Brown's School Days, a semi-biographical novel set at Rugby School (6,6) |
| CHAPTERS | Fellows welcoming most of the academic period in Tom Brown's School Days, for instance (8) |
| FLASHMAN | Character in Tom Brown's School Days, basis for a series of novels by GM Fraser |
| RUGBY | Public school that featured in Tom Brown's School days (5) |
| EAST | Harry "Scud" -, character in Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes (4) |
| HUGHES | Author of Tom Brown's School Days, a novel set at the Rugby School for boys that was adapted into a television film with Alex Pettyfer and Stephen Fry (6) |
| WATTEAU | A key figure in the Rococo art movement whose style of painting was categorised by the French Academy in 1717 as "fete galante" (7) |
| ALICE | Curious Wonderland adventurer whose style of hairband was adopted by Sloane Rangers as part of their preppy 1980s look (5) |
| NOUVEAU | The free-flowing style, which enjoyed popularity again in the late 1960s, was described in 1901 as A |
| DODO | Bird (whose style of very out of fashion) (4) |
| LYLY | 16th-century writer whose style of prose gave rise to the term euphuism (4) |
| SHEPARD | Artist who illustrated editions of Winnie-the-Pooh, The Secret Garden and Tom Brown's School Days (7) |
| CAMDEN | Antiquary and former headmaster of Westminster School who is depicted in a bust in Westminster Abbey with one hand on his great survey Britannia (6) |
| MOTIONLESS | How poet laureate's position was described in 2010, and is still (10) |
| UDULL | Which headmaster of Eton in 1537 and tutor to Edward Courtenay in the Tower, is credited with the fi |
| PUNT | A flat-bottomed boat; a bet; or, first recorded in the rules of football at Rugby School in 1845, a long kick (4) |
| STATUE | There's a bronze one at Rugby School in honour of William Webb Ellis (6) |
