| BURKE | John ___, Irish genealogist who first published his Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1826 |
| ROGET | Physician who first published his "Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases" in 1852 |
| PROUD | The ___" Duke; nickname of the peer Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, who rebuilt Petworth House in a baroque style with his heiress wife Elizabeth Percy (5) |
| IOLANTHE | Better-known title of "The Peer and the Peri" |
| PEERAGEMAN | John Burke, Irish genealogist |
| UNICORN | Mythical and heraldic beast (7) |
| CARDANO | Girolamo ___, Italian mathematician who first published the solution to the general cubic equation |
| PALADIN | One of the peers of Charlemagne's court |
| EPEE | A weapon carried by some of the peers |
| BANVILLE | John ___, Irish novelist whose novel The Sea won the Man Booker Prize in 2005 |
| TYNDALL | John ___, Irish physicist (1820-1893) who warned of global warming from carbon emissions (7) |
| OSHEA | John ___, Irish professional football coach and former player (5) |
| NOAHWEBSTER | American lexicographer who published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English L |
| CARR | Author of novels including A Day in Summer and A Month in the Country who published his Dictionary of Extraordinary English Cricketers under his imprint The Quince Tree Press (4) |
| DRJOHNSON | Name by which the lexicographer who wrote A Dictionary of the English Language and Lives of the Most |
| WEBSTER | Lexicographer noted for his 1806 publication A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language; or, the dramatist who wrote The Duchess of Malfi (7) |
| DARWIN | Josiah Wedgwood's grandson who was the naturalist on the five-year Beagle voyage and later published his theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species (6) |
| JOHNSON | Written about in James Boswell's Life, author of the Rambler essays and A Dictionary of the English Language who founded a literary club with Joshua Reynolds (7) |
| LLOYDWEBBER | English composer of musicals who published his first piece at the age of nine, Andrew ... (5,6) |
| OTHER | Photography pioneer Jacob Riis published his images of the slums of New York under the title, How The ... Half Lives |
