| WHITMAN | Poet who published the 1855 collection Leaves of Grass |
| AMYASLEIGH | Hero of the 1855 Charles Kingsley novel Westward Ho! (5,5) |
| WARDEN | 'The ---', 1855 novel by Anthony Trollope (6) |
| BADEGG | What term for a corrupt person originated in the 1855 novel Captain Priest, by Samuel A Hammett? (3,3) |
| WALTWHITMAN | 19th-century American poet famous for the verse collection Leaves Of Grass (1855) |
| ELECTRIC | I Sing the Body -; one of the poems from Walt Whitman's collection Leaves of Grass (8) |
| BRETON | Andre ___, French poet who published the first Surrealist manifesto in 1924 (6) |
| SVETLANAALEXIEVICH | Who published the oral history Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (2013) |
| BRADSHAW | English printer who published the first collection of railway timetables in 1839 (8) |
| ERASMUS | Desiderius ___, Dutch humanist who published the first Greek edition of the New Testament in 1516 (7 |
| MUNGO | Scottish explorer born in 1771 who published the volume Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa |
| LABAN | Hungarian choreographer who published the first of his influential books of dance notation in 1926 (5) |
| USTINOV | Surname of the knighted actor, writer and film director, who published the autobiography Dear Me (7) |
| YEATS | Irish poet who published a collection of stories entitled The Celtic Twilight in 1893 (5) |
| BLIXEN | Danish author who published the 1937 memoir Out of Africa, Karen _ (6) |
| UPDIKE | John, U.S. author who published The Witches of Eastwick in 1984 (6) |
| HERZL | Theodor ***** , journalist who published the 1896 pamphlet 'The Jewish State' (5) |
| ISAAC | Physicist who published the three laws of motion, Sir ... Newton |
| SMITH | Latter Day Saints movement founder who published the Book Of Mormon in 1830, Joseph ... |
| CHAMBERS | Brothers Robert and William who published the first edition of an English dictionary considered to be a cruciverbalist's companion (8) |
