| MAYHEW | Henry ___, author of the influential 1851 work London Labour and the London Poor |
| STAROFLENIN | Sheep shearing whizz Godfrey Bowen was awarded two top Soviet awards in 1963, the Hero of Socialist Labour and The ... (4,2,5) |
| GLOBULAR | Like balls leaders of Greater London Labour spun |
| TEMPO | Playtime, or work London police return to (5) |
| MOBYDICK | 1851 work by Herman Melville (4-4) |
| LAVENGRO | 1851 work by George Borrow (8) |
| AJAYER | British philosopher and author of the influential 1936 book on logical positivism, Language, Truth and Logic (1,1,4) |
| TURING | Author of the influential 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" |
| RENNIE | John ___, civil engineer who designed three London bridges and the London and East India docks |
| SOLTI | He led the Chicago Symphony and the London Philharmonic |
| OLYMPIA | Painting by Edouard Manet; or, an exhibition centre that hosts a famous horse show and the London Chess Classic annually (7) |
| SAMINNOSRAT | Author of the influential 2017 cookbook whose title appears at the ends of 15-, 23-, 45- and 54-Across |
| FIELDING | Henry ___, author of novels Amelia and An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews (8) |
| GERMAINEGREER | Writer of the influential 1970 book The Female Eunuch (8,5) |
| NEVILLE | Henry ___, author of 1668 prose fiction The Isle of Pines (7) |
| VANGOGH | Vincent ___ Dutch painter of The Starry Night who was also one of the influential figures of Western Art: 2 wds. |
| ALMAGEST | Arabic name of the influential astronomical treatise Mathematike Syntaxis (The Mathematical Arrangement), written by Ptolemy of Alexandria c. 150 AD (8) |
| JAMES | Henry ___, author of The Bostonians (5) |
| EZRA | First name of the influential modernist American poet who was charged with treason in 1945 (4) |
| AUTOBAHN | Motoring-based breakthrough single of the influential German band Kraftwerk |
