| PACHELBEL | Johann, German composer of the celebrated Canon and Gigue In D (9) |
| ALBERTO | Carlos ---, captain of the celebrated Brazil side that won the 1970 Fifa World Cup |
| COUPE | Body style of the celebrated Maserati Indy (5) |
| RICOH | Competitor of Canon and Xerox |
| EPSON | Canon and Xerox rival |
| GUTENBERG | Johann, German inventor of printing by movable type (9) |
| CIGARETTE | Item held by Paul McCartney on the celebrated cover of the album Abbey Road |
| ENGELBERT | -- Humperdinck, German composer of the opera 'Hansel and Gretel' (9) |
| BEETHOVEN | Ludwig van _, German composer of the Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise and Eroica Symphony (9) |
| OFFENBACH | German composer of the 1864 opera bouffe La belle Helene (9) |
| RICHARDWAGNER | German composer of the epic four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung in the 1860s and 1870s (7,6) |
| SCHILLER | Johann, German author of the play The Robbers (8) |
| VITA | Latin for "life" and a name of the author, diarist and poet, nee Sackville-West, who created the celebrated Sissinghurst Castle Garden with her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson (4) |
| RICHTER | Johann, German author who, under the name Jean Paul wrote the novel Hesperus (7) |
| ZADIESMITH | Author of "The Fraud," whose plot involves the celebrated nineteenth-century Tichborne case (September, 2023) |
| CHOIRS | Groups of singers performing rounds, canons and harmonies in unison (6) |
| GOETHE | Johann, German poet who authored the Wilhelm Meister novels (6) |
| NEUMANN | Johann, German rococo architect who died in 1753 (7) |
| FROG | The Celebrated Jumping ___ of Calaveras County (Mark Twain story) |
| HEIGHTOF | At which the celebrated conqueror of Everest will be! (6,2) |
