| BROADEST | Perhaps, best road is most wide (8) |
| SEEDIEST | Understand the German road is most shabby (8) |
| TENNYSON | Poet Laureate perhaps best known for his commemoration of a tragic battle of 1854 (8) |
| HOLYROOD | Palace, perhaps best known as the home of Mary, Queen of Scots (8) |
| KINGSLEY | Priestly polymath who was a champion of "muscular Christianity", a chaplain to Queen Victoria and also John Henry Newman's theological foe, but is perhaps best known as the author of The Water-Babies |
| DALMATIA | Croatian region perhaps best known for its contribution to the animal kingdom |
| PLATH | "I shut my eyes and all drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again." This American poet is perhaps best known for her novel The Bell Jar. |
| HANDEL | Which German composer is perhaps best known for his Messiah and Water Music suite? (6) |
| MILNE | "Dad's army"-captaining, H G Wells-tutored, Punch-contributing author who penned Peace with Honour, the play Toad of Toad Hall and poem At the Zoo, but is perhaps best known for his tales of Eeyore, O |
| LEITH | Food school-founding chef and dame whose Complete Christmas shows us how to plan parties, put leftovers to good use and bake dough, but is perhaps best known in her role as a judge on the GBBO show (5 |
| JOSIAH | Wedgwood perhaps best kept wrapped up in rag |
| RUNRINGSROUND | Quickly deliver jewellery, perhaps best by far |
| GOONRECORD | Sellers perhaps best to state opinion openly |
| CHAUCER | English author perhaps best known for "The Canterbury Tales" |
| SHAPPI | Stand-up comedian perhaps best known as _ Khorsandi (6) |
| THEBES | Perhaps best he repairs to old place (6) |
| SKELETONS | Such keys perhaps best left in cupboards? |
| ABBOTT | Former Farnham coachbuilders perhaps best remembered for their Ford estates (6) |
| NOISIEST | Sound around institute on road is the worst racket (8) |
| INFERNAL | Gather the road is cut back - extremely annoying! (8) |
