| KEE | Robert ___, author of 1947 memoir A Crowd Is Not Company; one of the original five presenters on TV- |
| NOONAN | Robert ___, author of novel The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, published posthumously in 1914 under the name Robert Tressell (6) |
| MALTHUS | Robert ___, author of An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) (7) |
| 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 |
| MAY | Surname of James, one of the presenters on The Grand Tour (3) |
| 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) |
| THROWER | One of the first presenters on Gardeners' World who also worked on Blue Peter (7) |
| ANDY | _ Day, one of the presenters on the CBeebies channel (4) |
| ALED | One of the presenters on Songs Of Praise, _ Jones (4) |
| PORT | Town with a harbour such as any of the original five. or "cinque" medieval examples - Dover, Hastings, Hythe, Romney and Sandwich (4) |
| THEBROOM | Words that when followed by Cupboard give the term given to the booth formerly used by presenters on BBC kids' TV (3,5) |
| SALLYPHILLIPS | She took part in Taskmaster in 2017 and became one of the rotating co-presenters on Pointless in 2024 (5,8) |
| BLOCH | Robert ___, author of the novels Psycho and Lori (5) |
| BOLT | Robert ___, author of 1960 stage play A Man for All Seasons (4) |
| LEVI | Primo _, Holocaust survivor who wrote the 1947 memoir If This Is A Man (4) |
| ANNAFORD | One of TV-am's Famous Five presenters (4,4) |
| OSSIA | A term for an alternative passage of music played instead of the original (5) |
| JOSEPH | Robert ___ author of French wine |
