| TOLKIEN | Professor of Anglo-Saxon and English Language and Literature who became one of Britain's greatest authors (7) |
| REEVE | The term 'sheriff' partly derives from this word for a high-ranking official of Anglo-Saxon and later times (5) |
| UKASE | British, Anglo-Saxon and English order (5) |
| DRJOHNSON | Name by which the lexicographer who wrote A Dictionary of the English Language and Lives of the Most |
| ZORRO | Hero of film and literature who rode the horse Tornado |
| PHILOLOGIST | An expert in language and literature (11) |
| DIRAC | Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist described by Stephen Hawking as Britain's greatest scienti |
| ANIGHTMARE | 1984 horror film starring John Saxon and Ronee Blakley (1,9,2,3,6) |
| ROSSINI | Son of a town trumpeter who became one of the main proponents of bel canto; his best-known operas include William Tell, The Thieving Magpie and The Barber of Seville (7) |
| MURAT | Officer who became one of Napoleon's marshals and rose to be King of Naples, executed in 1815 (5) |
| NICHOLADRIDLEY | Bishop of London who became one of the Oxford Martyrs in 1555 (8,6) |
| IDA | English actress who became one of the first women to direct Hollywood films (3) |
| HILLARY | New Zealand mountaineer who became one of the two first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953 (7) |
| MARTHA | Jez Blake's elderly mum, who became one of his final murder victims in Hollyoaks (6) |
| MERCIA | Kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England which became one of Alfred the Great's territories (6) |
| JARNOSAARINEN | Early 1970s yamaha racer who became one of the most influential racers in history before being tragically killed at Monza. (5,8) |
| TRACEYTHORN | Former member of Marine Girls who became one half of Everything but the Girl |
| SUTTONHOO | Which burial ground of Anglo-Saxon kings and ships in Suffolk has been called "page one of English history"? (6,3) |
| DOMINGO | Spanish singer who grew up in Mexico and became one of the three tenors |
| VIOLET | Colour of the Algerian iris; or, a pansylike flower of woodlands, hedgerows and old pastures " one of Britains first native plants to bloom after winter (6) |
