| GOTHIC | Literary style popular in the late 18c characterised by the grotesque and supernatural (6) |
| ROCOCO | Style of architecture which originated in France in the early 18c characterised by elaborate ornamentation (6) |
| POE | Author of the stories collected in "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" |
| EDGAR | Who published his Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840? (5,5,3) |
| ALLANPOE | Who published his Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840? (5,5,3) |
| DOOWOP | A style of vocal harmony in R&B style, popular in the U.S. in the 1950s (3,3) |
| CLOCHE | Close-fitting hat style popular in the 1920s (6) |
| DOLLAR | Pop duo, popular in the late Seventies and Eighties (6) |
| GLADYS | Female name of Welsh origin. popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (6) |
| OCCULT | Short copper in wierd cult? Mystic and Supernatural (6) |
| FIDGET | *Type of spinner popular in the late 2010s |
| BEAVER | "Deadwood" and "Supernatural" actor Jim |
| ARTDECO | Design style popular in the 1920s and '30s (3,4) |
| DECO | Art ... was a design style popular in the 1920s and 1930s |
| EDGARALLANPOE | American writer of the macabre, the fantastic and the grotesque, including The Fall Of The House Of |
| JHERICURL | *Perm style popular in the 1980s and early 1990s |
| PUNK | Music, popular in the late 1970s, as in the Dicentra 'Pink ___' and Hosta '___ Rock' (4) |
| RAGTIME | Syncopated musical style popular in the early twentieth century (7) |
| OPART | Abstract style popular in the '60s |
| ART | Architectural style popular in the 1920s/30s (3,4) |
