| MENELAUS | King whose wife was noted for launching ships |
| SLIPWAY | A basic requirement for launching ships (7) |
| SCHOONER | Rather outstanding captain and helmsman both launching ship (8) |
| SOLOMON | Biblical king of Israel who succeeded his father David and was noted for his wisdom (7) |
| SOD | Oscar Wilde was noted for it |
| TREATY | Versailles was noted for this feast before start of year |
| AVOGADRO | Amedeo ---, Italian physicist who was noted for his work on gases (8) |
| LALIQUE | Art Nouveau designer Rene ____ was noted for frosted glassware |
| CALIGULA | Which first-century Roman emperor was noted for his cruelty? (8) |
| STAMPS | Edward Stanley Gibbons, born in 1840, was noted for cataloguing them (6) |
| FLORAROBSON | Actress Dame ____ was noted for her role in Captain Brassbound's Conversion in 1948 |
| WHITTIER | John Greenleaf ____ was noted for anti-slavery campaigning and nostalgic poems about New England |
| MAEWEST | U.S. actress born in 1893 who wrote the play Diamond Lil and was noted for her suggestive wisecracks (3,4) |
| PABLOPICASSO | Spanish artist born in 1881 who was noted for his Blue and Rose periods (5,7) |
| TOSCANINI | Arturo, Italian conductor who was noted for his readings of Beethoven and Verdi (9) |
| GLOSSOP | Market town in Derbyshire that was noted for the printing and production of calico (7) |
| SPOONER | Who was noted for slips of the tongue whereby sounds of words are transposed, The Rev WA ... (7) |
| DUNLOP | "Weary" who, was noted for heroic service to fellow POWs in WWII (6) |
| MRSMALAPROP | Who in Sheridan's 1775 play The Rivals was noted for her verbal blunders? (3,8) |
| BENEDICT | Pope --- XV was noted for his attempts to end World War I (8) |
