| CALVINO | Italo ___, Italian author of the novel Invisible Cities who died in 1985 (7) |
| CHARLESDARNAY | Character in Charles Dickens's novel A Tale Of Two Cities who bears a resemblance to Sydney Carton (7,6) |
| SVEVO | Italo ___, author of the novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience (5) |
| CHAGALL | Artist who died in 1985 aged 97, noted for his use of saturated, contrasting colours in pieces such |
| UMBERTO | _ Eco, Italian author of The Name of the Rose (7) |
| BUZZATI | Dino, Italian author of the novel The Tartar Steppe (7) |
| TUITEKA | Singer and musician who died in 1985, 'Prince' _ _ (3,4) |
| ELLISON | Ralph, author of the 1952 novel Invisible Man (7) |
| MORAVIA | Alberto, Italian author of The Time of Indifference (7) |
| DELEDDA | Grazia ___, Italian writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 |
| TANCRED | Italo-Norman leader of the First Crusade, later Prince of Galilee (7) |
| FERRARI | Nickname for the Italo high-speed train, because of its dark red colour (7) |
| SIENESE | Italo-Byzantine painting school of the late Middle Ages founded by Duccio (7) |
| PIRANDELLO | Luigi ___, Italian author of works including The Turn (novel, 1902) and Six Characters in Search of an Author (play, (1921); Nobel Prize for Literature (1934) (10) |
| ECO | Umberto ___ Italian author of The Name of the Rose |
| MARINETTI | Filippo ____, Italian author of the Futurist Manifesto in 1909 |
| EUROPOP | Italo-disco cousin |
| REDGRAVE | English stage and film actor who died in 1985, Sir Michael -------- (8) |
| LAURA | & 6D Welsh fashion designer who died in 1985 (5,6) |
| LEVI | Carlo ___, Italian author of 1945 memoir Christ Stopped at Eboli (4) |
