| KEE | Robert ?, author of 1947 memoir A Crowd Is Not Company; one of the original five presenters on TV-am (3) |
| NOONAN | Robert ?, author of novel The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, published posthumously in 1914 under the name Robert Tressell (6) |
| ONEIDA | Native American tribe, one of the original five nations of the Iroquois Confederacy (6) |
| BABERUTH | One of the original five inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame |
| ONONDAGA | One of the original Five Nations gets nothing from refusal of French to gad around with advantage (8) |
| SENECA | For the most part, shipped out to laidback hotshot from one of the original Five Nations? (6) |
| LUDLUM | Robert ?, author of novels The Parsifal Mosaic and The Scorpio Illusion (6) |
| ANNAFORD | One of TV-am's Famous Five presenters (4,4) |
| PORT | Town with a harbour such as any of the original five. or "cinque" medieval examples - Dover, Hastings, Hythe, Romney and Sandwich (4) |
| LEVI | Primo _, Holocaust survivor who wrote the 1947 memoir If This Is A Man (4) |
| BLOCH | Robert ?, author of the novels Psycho and Lori (5) |
| BOLT | Robert ?, author of 1960 stage play A Man for All Seasons (4) |
| RAT | The puppet Roland who lives beneath King's Cross Station and who made his debut on TV-am in 1983 |
| OSSIA | A term for an alternative passage of music played instead of the original (5) |
| ATHOS | Hard-hearted "fit-for-work" company, one of a combative trio (5) |
| MOSS | Richard Ayoade in The IT Crowd is not picked up by Rolling Stone (4) |
| GENET | Jean, French author of 1947 play The Maids (5) |
| RANKIN | Robert ?, author of novels Necrophenia and Retromancer |
| THREE | It's a crowd (not company) |
| ROLAND | Rat who once had a slot on TV-am! (6) |
