| QUANT | Mary ___, English fashion designer credited with pioneering and naming the miniskirt in the 1960s (5) |
| MARYQUANT | English fashion designer who popularised the miniskirt in the 60s (4,5) |
| BEARD | Mary _; English classicist (5) |
| SIEVE | Strain is back with pioneering woman (5) |
| VERVE | Victor with pioneering female retaining rare enthusiasm (5) |
| ESTUARY | Channel Yeats artistically with pioneering, unorthodox risks |
| ARMANI | Giorgio, Italian fashion designer credited with designing the first bomber jacket in 1970 (6) |
| COCO | - - - Chanel, French fashion designer credited with the concept of the little black dress (4) |
| COCOCHANEL | 20th-century French fashion designer credited with popularising the little black dress (4,6) |
| VIONNET | Fashion designer credited with inventing the bias cut |
| HENRY | Surname of the Swiss designer credited with the design of Peugeot, Ballot, and Sunbeam early twin-cam racing engines (5) |
| AMIES | Edwin Hardy ___ , English fashion designer and royal dressmaker (5) |
| FROST | David ---, TV host and journalist who presented the satirical show That Was The Week That Was in the 1960s (5) |
| TAXONOMISTS | Those involved in the science of finding, describing, classifying and naming plants and other organisms (11) |
| STEED | John ___, Patrick Macnee's character in The Avengers in the 1960s (5) |
| FA | The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization. |
| MUIR | Jean _; English fashion designer (4) |
| UNCLE | The Addams Famile Fester showing where Robert Vaughn's man was from in the 1960s (5) |
| ARKLE | Three-time winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup in the 1960s (5) |
| CLINT | First name of Mr Eastwood who played Rowdy Yates in Rawhide in the 1960s (5) |
