| BOSWELL | James ......., biographer of Samuel Johnson (7) |
| ANTONIA | ---- Fraser, biographer of Mary Queen of Scots (7) |
| JAMES | And 4dn Scottish author of Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (5,7) |
| ZIEGLER | Philip ___ (b.1929), British historian and biographer of William IV, Cecil Rhodes and Edward VIII (7) |
| CLAIRE | Acclaimed biographer of Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft. (6,7) |
| RICHARDSAVAGE | English poet who was the subject of Samuel Johnson's first extended literary biography, published in 1744 (7,6) |
| LICHFIELD | Cathedral city in Staffordshire; birthplace of Samuel Johnson (9) |
| GARRICK | Actor-manager at Drury Lane who was a friend of Dr Samuel Johnson (7) |
| JAMESBOSWELL | The friend and biographer of 18th Century writer Samuel Johnson (5,7) |
| POVERTY | "___ is a great enemy to human happiness": Samuel Johnson |
| MANKIND | “I am willing to love all ____, except an American” (Samuel Johnson) |
| EDEL | A Henry James biographer |
| GENE | Henry James biographer |
| LEON | Henry James biographer Edel |
| ANTONIAFRASER | Historical biographer of Mary Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell, who also created Jemima Shore, the investigative journalist (7,6) |
| FRASER | Antonia ---, biographer of Mary, Queen of Scots and Marie Antoinette |
| CLAIRETOMALIN | Biographer of Austen, Dickens and Wollstonecraft, amongst others (6,7) |
| RENAN | A biographer of Jesus |
| EMILLUDWIG | Biographer of Goethe, Napoleon, et al. |
| KITTYKELLEY | Celebrity biographer of note |
