| IMPALER | Nickname of Vlad III, the model for Dracula |
| FROISSART | Medieval historian whose Chronicles chart the events of the Hundred Years' War including the accession of Edward III, the Battle of Crecy and the Peasants' Revolt (9) |
| VLAD | ___ the Impaler (model for Dracula) |
| CEDUNA | Near which town on the eastern Great Australian Bight is the Nuyts Archipelago, the location Swift used as the model for his lands of Lilliput and Blefuscu in Gulliver's Travels (1726) |
| TAKASHI | First name of the director of Lupin III: The First |
| NEALCASSADY | US writer who was the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the Jack Kerouac novel On the Road (4 |
| IVAN | _ III the Great of Russia - (Great Prince of Musoovy) (4) |
| RENOIR | In 1890, who married one of the models for his painting Luncheon of the Boating Party? (6) |
| OSCARMAYER | The model for the Weenie Awards statuette? |
| CESARE | - Borgia was the model for Machiavelli's The Prince (6) |
| HERSCHEL | Composer whose construction of a telescope led to his discovery of Uranus in 1781 and subsequent appointment as court astronomer to George III the following year (8) |
| THISTLE | During the 1460-88 reign of King James III, the unicorn and which other symbol first appeared on Scottish coins? (7) |
| TREK | "Star ___ III: The Search for Spock" |
| SEARCH | "Star Trek III: The ___ for Spock" |
| DADDY | Provider of 3, the best of them all? (5) |
| BORGIA | Cesare, Italian cardinal and politician who was the model for Machiavelli's The Prince (6) |
| ALEXANDER | Author and critic who was the model for the George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart character Sheridan Whiteside (9,9) |
| WOOLLCOTT | Author and critic who was the model for the George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart character Sheridan Whiteside (9,9) |
| HAWTHORNE | Author and critic who was the model for the George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart character Sheridan Whiteside |
| NIPPER | Dog that was the model for the 1898 painting His Master's Voice (6) |
