| BRIEFLIVES | John Aubrey's collection of short biographies about contemporaries such as Hobbes and Milton |
| BIMBOS | Medical man with short biographies about nice but dim people (6) |
| TIGERS | Animals such as Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes |
| WHOSWHO | Book of short biographies (4,3) |
| DUOS | Calvin & Hobbes and Lilo & Stitch, for two |
| DWAYNE | Fast & Furious: Hobbes & Shaw star, ... Johnson (6) |
| RIOJA | Port Jack Aubrey's opening is Iberian wine |
| JOHNSON | Lexicographer whose Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets comprises short biographies of writers including John Milton, Samuel Butler and John Dryden (7) |
| DORE | Artist noted for illustrations in classics by Dante, Cervantes, Rabelais, La Fontaine and Milton as well as works by many of his contemporaries (4) |
| STICH | Lyrical unit, from the Greek for a march, row of things or walking path, used by poets from the "Bard of Avon" and Milton to Ginsberg and Plath (5) |
| ECONOMICS | Field of expertise shared by John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman in the 20th century (9) |
| PROFILES | Specialist refines short biographies (8) |
| RAHWAY | New Jersey hometown of Carl Sagan and Milton Friedman |
| SKETCHESBYBOZ | 1836 collection of short works by Charles Dickens described as 'Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People' (8,2,3) |
| MAYNARD | Nicky ......., Bristol City, West Ham United and Milton Keynes striker (7) |
| NEWTOWNS | Scientist's embracing wife in Telford and Milton Keynes? (3,5) |
| MUNRO | Hector Hugh -; author "Saki" whose collection of short stories Beasts and Super-Beasts includes The Hen, The Quince Tree and The Lumber Room (5) |
| THEPHANTOM | ___ and Other Eerie Tales, 1888 collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling (3,7,8) |
| TALES | - of the Unexpected; collection of short stories by Roald Dahl (5) |
| PRINCE | The Happy ___ and Other Tales 1888 collection of short stories for children by Oscar Wilde |
