| LAMARR | Mark, English comedian and original host of Never Mind the Buzzcocks (6) |
| HEAP | Mark, English comedian who played Jim Bell in the TV sitcom Friday Night Dinner (4) |
| SUE | --- Perkins, comedian and original co-presenter of Bake Off (3) |
| EVANS | Chris -----, DJ and original host of The Big Breakfast (5) |
| MADDIX | Jamali _, comedian who appeared on the reboot of Never Mind The Buzzcocks (6) |
| AMSTELL | Ex-host of Never Mind the Buzzcocks and star of Grandma's House, Simon ... (7) |
| SIMONAMSTELL | Host of Never Mind The Buzzcocks from 2006 to 2009 (5,7) |
| JAMALI | First name of Mr Maddix, regular panellist on Never Mind The Buzzcocks (6) |
| RHOD | ____ Gilbert, Welsh stand-up comedian who was the third regular presenter of Never Mind The Buzzcocks (4) |
| JUPITUS | Phill ---, TV comic and team captain on 28 series of Never Mind the Buzzcocks |
| BAILEY | Bill, ex-Never Mind the Buzzcocks team captain (6) |
| RONSON | Mark, English DJ who produced the song Uptown Funk released in 2014 (6) |
| SIGNET | Mark English is ahead of Troy Ring (6) |
| MATHIS | "The Twelfth of Never" crooner |
| VICTIM | Casualty of never-ending evil period (6) |
| MELINA | Mercouri of 'Never on Sunday' |
| LEELEE | Sobieski of "Never Been Kissed" |
| NOELFIELDING | Former Never Mind The Buzzcocks team captain and surreal comedian (4,8) |
| PHILL | Original Never Mind the Buzzcocks panellist, _ Jupitus (5) |
| ROGET | Peter Mark -, English physician and lexicographer whose Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases was published in 1852 |
