| ALVA | Middle name of certain "wizard" |
| THOUSANDS | "Mother-of- ___", common name of certain prolific creeping plants (9) |
| DRAGOON | A mounted, armed infantryman: the term survives in the names of certain regiments (7) |
| ANN | Middle name of Lee Womack, whose '00 inspirational hit "I Hope You Dance" was named one of the Songs of the Century |
| LUTWIDGE | Middle name of Charles Dodgson, the real name of the author Lewis Carroll (8) |
| WALDO | Middle name of "The Sage of Concord" |
| NANCE | Middle name of one of FDR's veeps |
| RIHANNA | Stage name (and middle name) of Robyn Fenty |
| SEUSS | Middle name of Theodor Geisel, author of the children's book The Cat in the Hat (5) |
| KLAPKA | Middle name of the author of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome (6) |
| STEARNS | Middle name of T S Eliot, author of 1922 poem The Waste Land (7) |
| CLERIHEW | Form of comic verse named after the middle name of writer Edmund Bentley (8) |
| ZOWIE | US interjection of surprise; middle name of film-maker Duncan Jones, David Bowie's son (5) |
| RENNIE | Middle name of Charles Mackintosh, architect who designed the Glasgow School of Art and the Willow Tea Rooms (6) |
| STAVRO | Middle name of the fictional supervillain Blofeld in the James Bond series of novels and films |
| BROOK | Harry is the first name and Cherrington the middle name of this prolific batsman. (5) |
| SPENCER | Middle name of PM giving name to Bulleid engine 34051 (7) |
| BYRON | Which poet's name was the middle name of actor James Dean? (5) |
| EDGAR | Middle name of John Hoover who was director of the FBI 1924-1972 (5) |
| RAE | Middle name of the singer of "Run Away With Me" |
