| RILEY | Poet who wrote "An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you / Ef you / Don't / Watch / Out!" |
| SCHILLER | German poet who wrote "An die Freude", set to music by Beethoven in his choral symphony |
| OVID | Poet who wrote an endless poem about six (4) |
| KIDSTABLE | Spot for young 'uns at a family dinner |
| SCHUMACHER | EF ____ wrote the 1973 book Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered |
| CHO | Margaret who impersonated Kim Jong-un at the 2015 Golden Globes |
| ABOMINATE | Can't take the man to be a wrong 'un at heart (9) |
| DOPPLER | Christian -, 19th-century mathematician and physicist noted for his work an the frequency of light and sound waves (7) |
| LOCKE | John ---, English philosopher; an early empiricist who wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (5) |
| ADAMS | Member of a prestigious American family, a historian who wrote an autobiography, The Education of ___, published in 1918 (5,5) |
| HENRY | Member of a prestigious American family, a historian who wrote an autobiography, The Education of ___, published in 1918 (5,5) |
| NICOLAI | Otto ___; composer who wrote an operatic version of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (7) |
| MENDELSSOHN | Surname of the German composer who wrote an overture about a natural feature of Staffa (11) |
| MALTHUS | Thomas, English economist who wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population (7) |
| ONE | Number of ribs ordered by an annoying customer played by Chris Rock in "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" |
| RICKEA | Basketball star Jackson who said, "I don't watch the MNBA" |
| RYE | East Sussex town on which Tillingham in the EF Benson Mapp and Lucia books is based |
| ONETRACKMIND | Describes obsessive type on the last horse at The Curragh? Watch out! (3-5,4) |
| EARTO | Keep an the ground |
| ADAM | He may be an the tarmac (4) |