| MURRAY | Sir James -; depicted in The Professor and the Madman, an early editor of what became the Oxford English Dictionary (6) |
| MOSES | ___ Yale Beach, founder of what became the Associated Press |
| READE | John ___, early editor of the "Montreal Gazette" |
| OED | Ref. work chronicled in "The Professor and the Madman" |
| PENN | The Professor and the Madman actor Sean |
| MADMAN | "The Professor and the ___" (Simon Winchester book about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary) |
| PROFESSOR | Film chronicling the creation of the Oxford dictionary, starring Mel Gibson and Sean Penn, The - and the Madman (9) |
| FITZROY | Captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's voyage who wrote The Weather Book, invented a barometer and founded in 1854 what became the Met Office (7) |
| DREAMS | "What became of the likely lads/what became of the _ _ _ _ _ _ we had," The Libertines (6) |
| LESSON | Ionesco play featuring the Professor and the Pupil, with "The" |
| ARIZONA | In 1912, what became the 48th state of the US? (7) |
| ALASKA | In 1959, what became the 49th state of the USA? (6) |
| GUNPOWDER | Guy Fawkes Night is a celebration of a failed attempt on the life of King James I of England in what became known as the ... Plot |
| HEARST | What became the world’s biggest media conglomerate began with George ____’s purchase of a San Francisco newspaper in 1880 |
| SOLFERINO | Heavy French and Austrian casualties in this 1859 battle led Henry Dunant to found what became the Red Cross (9) |
| JASPER | Original name for Tom in what became the Tom and Jerry cartoons |
| SUNBEAM | In 1923, what became the first Britishmade car to win a Grand Prix? (7) |
| TWIN | ___ Territories, nickname for what became the state of Oklahoma |
| BOATYMCBOATFACE | Proposed name for what became the research vessel RSS Sir David Attenborough |
| ANN | "... the Professor and Mary ___" (line from the "Gilligan's Island" theme) |
