| HORGAN | Sharon, who helped to devise Motherland (6) |
| ESTHER | ____ Rantzen, TV presenter who helped to set up charity Childline (6) |
| CICELY | ___ Saunders, social worker who helped to found the hospice movement (6) |
| DENNIS | Son of Sharon who's been causing mayhem for the other kids in the Square (6,7) |
| HOWARD | Inspiration for Constable, Goethe, Ruskin, Shelley and Turner, amateur meteorologist who adopted Linnaean principles to devise the nomenclature system for clouds we use today (6) |
| DUNCAN | Isadora ___, an early 20th century American dancer who helped to free ballet from its rigid conventions (6) |
| MOWLAM | Mo, Northern Ireland Secretary who helped to broker the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 (6) |
| DOMINO | Fats, byname of U.S. singer and pianist born in 1928 who helped to define the New Orleans R&B sound (6) |
| LAMARR | Hedy, Austrian-born film star who helped to invent a radio communications device (6) |
| THATCH | Local Big Wig to devise plan after tea (6) |
| OMELET | Folk must be crackers to devise such a dish (6) |
| STEIFF | Richard ___, German designer who helped to create the teddy bear |
| MOODIE | Tanya _, actor in TV series The Man Who Fell to Earth and Motherland (6) |
| MORGAN | Diane, who plays Liz in Motherland (6) |
| JOANNA | Actress who has recently appeared in Motherland and Finding Alice, _ Lumley (6) |
| HOMAGE | Silver found in the motherland was paid by vassals (6) |
| AMANDA | Character played by Lucy Punch in TV sitcom Motherland (6) |
| MEXICO | *Poinsettia's motherland |
| NATION | Motherland |
| OLDSOD | Motherland, affectionately |
