| BEETON | Isabella ___, cook whose Book of Household Management was first published in 1861 (6) |
| CARRIE | ****** Fisher, US actress whose novel 'Postcards from the Edge' was first published in 1987 (6) |
| BLANCMANGE | Old fashioned jelly-like pudding with a recipe in Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management (10) |
| MRSBEETON | Victorian English writer famous for her book of household management (3,6) |
| UTENSILS | Kitchenalia with Victorian forms illustrated in Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (8) |
| DOH | Cartoon catchphrase included in the New Oxford Dictionary of English when it was first published in 1998 |
| SAMUELJOHNSON | Lexicographer whose Dictionary was first published in 1755 (6,7) |
| NIGELLA | ____ Lawson, cook whose first cookery book How To Eat was published in 1998 (7) |
| BEARDSLEY | Inspired by Japanese woodcuts, his drawing The Toilet of Salome was first published in the 1894 edition of Oscar Wilde's Salome. |
| DICKENS | His novel Oliver Twist was first published in monthly instalments in the magazine, Bentley's Miscell |
| TOTAL | ---Rugby, Jim Greenwood's classic coaching book that was first published in 1968 (5) |
| MAPLELEAFRAG | Scott Joplin piano composition whose sheet music was first published in 1899 |
| SILASMARNER | George Eliot's classic novel published in 1861, ...: The Weaver Of Raveloe (5,6) |
| PROBLEM | Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle that was first published in the Strand Magazine in December 1893 (3,5,7) |
| THEFINAL | Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle that was first published in the Strand Magazine in December 1893 (3,5,7) |
| FRESCOBALDI | Girolamo ___, Italian organist and composer whose best known work, the collection Fiori musicali, was first published in 1635 (11) |
| ELIA | Pen name of the writer Charles Lamb whose book of essays features in the storyline of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (4) |
| HUGH | Playboy magazine was first published in December 1953 by ... Hefner |
| STAGE | The -, theatre industry periodical that was first published in 1880 (5) |
| FANNYCRADOCK | Cook whose TV career was ended by savage criticism of an amateur cook’s proposed menu for an important lunch |