| SPIRITED | It is inspired and lively |
| DEBORAH | ____ Bone, mental health nurse who inspired and is named in Pulp's song Disco 2000 (7) |
| ELIOT | T.S. who inspired "Cats" |
| KIDD | Pirate whose hidden treasure inspired "The Gold-Bug" |
| WAITIN | ___ for a Superman (Is It Gettin' Heavy) 1999 song by The Flaming Lips that is inspired by Superman |
| MOTIVATED | "Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and _ by the Devil himself': Billy Graham (9) |
| MINIBUSES | Transport when one writer is inspired by Erato and her sisters |
| STEELY | ___ Dan Do It Again band whose name is inspired by William S. Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch |
| MEN | Of Mice and ___ Restoring Force band whose name is inspired by a John Steinbeck novel |
| AWAY | Gouge ___ song by rock band Pixies that is inspired by the story of Samson and Delilah |
| HOURS | The ___ 1998 novel by Michael Cunningham that is inspired by and features Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway |
| SANDIEGO | City that is inspired by courage and drive (3,5) |
| GAUGUIN | Somerset Maugham's 1919 novel Moon and Sixpence is inspired by the life of which French painter? (7) |
| EXCISE | Discover Red Cross is inspired by church and duty (6) |
| THEOPERA | Carmen playing in top theatre is inspired? Mercury seen to rise in it? (1,5,2,3,5) |
| ANIGHTAT | Carmen playing in top theatre is inspired? Mercury seen to rise in it? (1,5,2,3,5) |
| BREATH | What's on in Aqua Sulis is inspired (6) |
| OBOIST | Player is inspired by Milton (abridged) (6) |
| IVORIES | Piano arrangement of Novello that is inspired |
| FIERY | Passionate prison reformer that is inspired (5) |
