| HEARST | Leader in yellow journalism and an inspiration for "Citizen Kane" |
| AMUSEBOUCHE | An appetiser and an inspiration: it hurts, to be without that |
| AMUSE | Be a diversion, and an inspiration to (5) |
| ORSON | First name of the actor and director remembered for Citizen Kane and his radio dramatisation of The War of the Worlds (5) |
| POCKET | Appropriate leads for Citizen Kane accepted by writer |
| TYCOON | Extremely tricky ruse to secure Oscar for Citizen Kane? |
| ELLIS | Philologist who was an inspiration for Pygmalion's professor and identified several English dialects, including Cumbrian, Pitmatic and that of the Smoggies; or, an author who explored yuppie nihilism |
| CALLIOPE | Manage to include everybody and one could be an inspiration for poets (8) |
| MUSE | Term for one of the Greek goddesses who were an inspiration for creative people |
| LIVERPUDLIAN | Meat and dessert in LA cooked for citizen of Northern town |
| PULITZER | ___ Prizes, annual awards given by Columbia University for achievement in U.S. journalism and the arts (8) |
| WRITINGPAPER | Journalism and the press. Good material for a billet doux (7-5) |
| PULITZERPRIZE | Prestigious US award in literature, journalism and music |
| THOMASCOCHRANE | Admiral of the fleet, and first governor of Newfoundland; another admiral, an inspiration for Horatio Hornblower |
| ZOOLOGIST | An animal scientist, such as Ernst Haeckel, whose illustrations were an inspiration for art nouveau (9) |
| MUCHWENLOCK | Shropshire village whose sports were an inspiration for the modern Olympic Games (4,7) |
| MOON | The largest satellite orbiting the Earth? It's an inspiration for a werewolf (4) |
| VLAD | ___ the Impaler, voivide of Wallachia who was an inspiration for the character Count Dracula |
| GILLESDERAIS | 15th-century French army commander convicted of child murders, possibly an inspiration for Bluebeard |
| AMUSEMENT | An inspiration for some people, on time, could be fun (9) |
