| DUBLINER | Name ship "Oscar Wilde" perhaps (8) |
| EPIGRAM | Remark by Wilde, perhaps, on English livestock? (7) |
| OSCAR | A statuette of Wilde perhaps (5) |
| SCAR | Cliff Wilde, perhaps not the first |
| DUBLINERS | Capital people name ships (9) |
| IRISHMAN | Perhaps Oscar Wilde returned a title getting a bit hassled with people (8) |
| AESTHETE | Maybe Oscar Wilde ate these when out to lunch (8) |
| WORTHING | Seaside resort in West Sussex, once home to Oscar Wilde and Harold Pinter (8) |
| HOLLOWAY | Oscar Wilde was held in which prison in 1895, awaiting trial? (8) |
| EPIGRAMS | Concise, witty sayings such as those penned by Oscar Wilde (8) |
| THETRUTH | It's "rarely pure and never simple," per Oscar Wilde |
| OFDORIAN | Oscar Wilde classic, The Picture ... Gray (2,6) |
| MAGDALEN | Oxford college where Oscar Wilde read Greats |
| IMITATUR | Vita artem ____: Life copies art, Oscar Wilde (dep.) |
| BALLADOF | Poem by Oscar Wilde (3,6,2,7,4) |
| SHARPWIT | It's common sense to follow On The Ball? They said the same about Oscar Wilde! (5,3) |
| WHENEVER | Oscar Wilde quipped, 'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others ... they go' |
| MONOGAMY | Oscar Wilde wrote, 'Bigamy is having one wife too many. ... is the same' |
| UGLINESS | "What is a fashion? [...] It is usually a form of ____ so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months" (Oscar Wilde) |
| WELLBRED | "The _ _ contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves": Oscar Wilde (4,4) |