| CAPTAINOBVIOUS | Master of the familiar |
| LEFANU | Sheridan - -; author of Uncle Silas and the collection of stories In a Glass Darkly that includes Green Tea and The Familiar (2,4) |
| SCOTTIE | What is the familiar name of the dog featured in the game Monopoly? (7) |
| BUREAU | The ------, familiar name of the FBI (6) |
| ENGLISHLANGUAGE | It's the familiar speech, in a manner of speaking (7,8) |
| SIDEBURNS | What is the familiar name for whiskers grown on the cheek edges? (9) |
| WHODUNNIT | What is the familiar term for the murder mystery genre? (9) |
| DORSAL | Like the familiar shark fin |
| ICONIC | Like the familiar Coke bottle |
| NOSTALGIC | Evoking the familiar past (9) |
| AMORETTO | Cupid's a heartless rogue, in the familiar phrase |
| IRON | A metal that forms the familiar reddish-brown rust on oxidation (4) |
| ROLLS | Master of the ____, the head of the civil division of the Court of Appeal |
| TITIAN | Born near the foot of the Dolomites circa 1490, the Renaissance master of the Venetian school whose works include his seven-metre-high Assunta, Bacchus and Ariadne and the Danae series (6) |
| SIDNEY | Best-selling author of novels such as Master of the Game and The Other Side of Midnight who also created the TV series I Dream of Jeannie and Hart to Hart (6,7) |
| SHELDON | Best-selling author of novels such as Master of the Game and The Other Side of Midnight who also created the TV series I Dream of Jeannie and Hart to Hart (6,7) |
| SIRISAACNEWT | Master of the Royal Mint at the start of the 18th century |
| POPE | Poet, Kit-Cat, Scriblerian, master of the heroic couplet and celebrator of the goddess Dulness in The Dunciad, whose villa in Twickenham, as seen in a painting by Turner, was demolished, leaving only |
| ATARMS | The Heroic Master of Weapons in HeMan and the Masters of the Universe, Man- (2-4) |
| WEIR | Composer of A Night at the Chinese Opera who was appointed Master of The Queen's Music in succession to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in 2014 (4) |
