| HOGG | Poet discovered by Sir Walter Scott who wrote The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (4) |
| KEATS | Poet discovered during a hike at sunset (5) |
| ODELL | Scott who wrote "The Black Pearl" |
| TUROW | Scott who wrote the legal thriller "Presumed Innocent" |
| EDINBURGH | Hired gun wandering around front of battle - setting of Private Memiors and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (9) |
| DERREN | Television and stage performer whose books include Tricks of the Mind and Confessions of a Conjuror (6,5) |
| BROWN | Television and stage performer whose books include Tricks of the Mind and Confessions of a Conjuror (6,5) |
| PRIVATEMEMOIRS | Enlisted man bound to have reminiscences like Confessions of a Justified Sinner (7,7) |
| PJHOGAN | Director of Muriel's Wedding and Confessions Of A Shopaholic (2,5) |
| LINEARA | Name of one of the two undeciphered scripts discovered by Sir Arthur Evans (6,1) |
| NEON | One of the elements co-discovered by Sir William Ramsay along with argon, helium, krypton and xenon |
| CHENEY | Former Wyoming congresswoman Liz, who wrote "Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning" |
| SODIUM | A bluish-white alkaline metallic element discovered by Sir Humphry Davy in 1807 (6) |
| COLINJOST | "SNL" regular who wrote the memoir "A Very Punchable Face" |
| WIESEL | Author of the Yiddish memoir "And the World Remained Silent" |
| ELIEWIESEL | Author of the Yiddish memoir "And the World Remained Silent" |
| URANUS | Planet discovered by Sir William Herschel, English astronomer of Jewish descent (6) |
| PIANIST | 'The ******* ', 2002 film based on a Holocaust memoir and starring Adrien Brody (7) |
| USHER | R&B singer whose songs "Burn" and "Confessions Part II" were simultaneously #1 and #2 in 2004 |
| PECCAVI | Constable - about six - seizes Ecstasy and confession of guilt (7) |
