| VAUGHANWILLIAMS | Ralph -- --, 1872-1958, English composer (7,8) |
| VAUGHAN | Ralph - Williams, 1872-1958, English composer (7) |
| BERTRANDRUSSELL | English philosopher and mathematician, 1872-1970 (8,7) |
| AUBREYBEARDSLEY | Illustrator born in 1872 noted for his work on The Yellow Book (6,9) |
| BIZET | "L'Arlesienne" suite composer, 1872 |
| BEERBOHM | English writer and caricaturist (1872-1956). |
| SCRIABIN | Alexander ___ (1872 - 1915), a Russian pianist and composer (8) |
| ALFVEN | Composer Hugo ____ (1872-1960), was best known for his first Swedish Rhapsody |
| BLERIOT | Louis ___ (1872 - 1936), French aviator, the first person to fly across the English Channel (7) |
| HEATHROBINSON | English cartoonist and illustrator (1872-1944) noted for his depictions of absurdly overcomplicated mechanical devices performing simple tasks (5,8) |
| GOUNOD | French composer of the 1872 piano piece Funeral March of a Marionette (6) |
| BUTLER | Samuel ___ (1835 - 1902), English novelist and critic who wrote Erewhon (1872) (6) |
| GEORGEELIOT | English novelist from the 19th-century who wrote Middlemarch (1871-1872) |
| OUIDA | Pseudonym of English novelist Marie Louise de la Ramee; Under Two Flags (1867), A Dog of Flanders (1872) etc. (5) |
| CHAMBERS | William and Robert ___, brothers who published their first English dictionary in 1872 (8) |
| EREWHON | 1872 utopian novel by English author Samuel Butler subtitled Or, Over The Range (7) |
| TSARINA | Royal title of eg Alexandra of Russia (1872-1918) (7) |
| OVAL | Kennington ___, 1872 FA Cup Final venue (4) |
| MILKOFMAGNESIA | Antacid name since 1872 |
| ALSACE | French ------ -Lorraine, was German 1872-1919 (6) |
