| SKEGNESS | Seaside town in Lincolnshire that's "so bracing" according to a famous poster commissioned by the Great Northern Railway in 1908 |
| MEETING | Winston Churchill declared, "I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the gr |
| ARES | M_ _s, to the Gr_ek_ |
| TRESSY | Like Farrah's hair in a famous poster |
| HOPE | Word on a famous poster of Barack Obama |
| ELGAR | Forming the basis of a long friendship, who was helped with technical details by the conductor W.H. Reed when he was commissioned by the violinist Fritz Kreisler to write Violin Concerto (1910)? (5) |
| AIDA | Four-act opera by Giuseppe Verdi commissioned by the khedive of Egypt and premiered in the Cairo Opera House in 1871 (4) |
| LIPPI | Italian artist who was commissioned by the Medici family to create the panel paintings The Annunciat |
| TAJMAHAL | Marble mausoleum in Agra commissioned by the emperor Shah Jahan in the 1630s (3,5) |
| REITHLECTURE | One of a series of annual radio presentations given by leading figures of the day, commissioned by the BBC (5,7) |
| OFILI | Turner Prize-winning artist who was commissioned by the Clothworkers Company to create The Caged Bird's Song tapestry (5) |
| THREEGRACES | The -, sculpture by Antonio Canova commissioned by the 6th Duke of Bedford for Woburn Abbey (5,6) |
| UNDERMILKWOOD | Play by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, commissioned by the BBC as a radio drama (5,4,4) |
| PROMISEDLAND | 1987 film starring Kiefer Sutherland and Meg Ryan that was the first film to be commissioned by the Sundance Film Festival |
| TIMESNEWROMAN | Popular typeface originally commissioned by the paper nicknamed 'The Thunderer' (5,3,5) |
| LONGSUTTON | Market town in Lincolnshire whose 13th-century St Mary's Church boasts one of the best-preserved lead spires in England |
| WESTSIDESTORY | Its famous poster features figures dancing on a fire escape (4,4,5) |
| ARCDETRIOMPHE | Common name for a structure in Place Charles de Gaulle in Paris commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 (3,2,8) |
| CHESTERFIELD | Market town in Derbyshire, home to a famous 14th-Century church with a twisted spire (12) |
| MARKETRASEN | English town in Lincolnshire with a racecourse (6,5) |
