| BYROM | Poet who, in his satire of 1725, applied the names "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" to the two rival composers Handel and Bononcini (5) |
| LAYAMON | Poet who, in his work Brut, was the first to present the legends of King Arthur (7) |
| YORK | Identified by a white rose, one of the two rival Plantagenet houses (4) |
| WAUGH | Novelist who wrote in his satire Decline and Fall of the trials of scholar Paul Pennyfeather, wrongly sent down from Oxford after falling victim to the antics of the Bollinger Club (5) |
| SWIFT | Anglo-Irish author and clergyman who wrote about Lilliput, Brobdingnag and the Land of the Houyhnhnms in his satire Gulliver's Travels (5) |
| LORDBYRON | "She Walks in Beauty" poet who in 1810 became the first known person to swim across Turkey's Dardanelles Strait |
| DRYDEN | Poet who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate, John _ (6) |
| HORACE | Roman poet famous for his Satires, Odes, Epodes, and Epistles (6) |
| GOYA | Spanish painter well known for his portraits and for his satires (4) |
| JUVENAL | Roman poet noted for his satires (7) |
| DOUBLETON | Tweedledum and Tweedledee, or King and Queen of Hearts, say |
| ARNOLD | Forename of a Mr Universe-turned-California governor with much political sway and who, in his role as a thesp, played Mr Freeze in Batman & Robin and frantically chased Turbo Man in Jingle All the Way |
| IDENTICAL | Marshal in citadel, like Tweedledum and Tweedledee (9) |
| IDENTICALTWINS | Like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, pilot lands in it twice (9,5) |
| TWINS | Like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, inseparable they'd have to be. (9,5) |
| ALICE | Girl who encountered Tweedledum and Tweedledee |
| MOZART | Salzburg-born musician who, in his 35 years of life, composed some 600 works including The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute (6) |
| ARTHUR | Forename of a novelist who, in his 1887 work of fiction A Study in Scarlet, created the crime-solving duo Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson (6) |
| LALANDE | Surname of the French astronomer who, in his Histoire Celeste, catalogued the positions of about 50,000 stars (7) |
| TWINBEDS | Presumably where Tweedledum and Tweedledee sleep ... (4,4) |
