| STEELE | Sir Richard -; member of the Kit-Cat Club who founded The Spectator with Joseph Addison (6) |
| ADDISON | Kit-Cat Club member who ' co-founded The Spectator with Sir Richard Steele in 1711 (7) |
| RICHARD | Dublin-born writer who co-founded The Spectator magazine with Joseph Addison (7,6) |
| KNELLER | Sir Godfrey -; artist who painted a series of portraits of members of the Kit-Cat Club (7) |
| ORANGE | Colour of the kit traditionally worn by the Dutch national football team (6) |
| WHIGS | Political party with prominent members who formed the Kit-Cat Club (5) |
| FOREST | Nottingham ____, English football club who play their home matches at the City Ground (6) |
| JURGEN | Manager of Liverpool Football Club who has bought a home in Mallorca (6) |
| BAYERN | ____ Munich, German football club who first won the Bundesliga in 1932 (6) |
| ASIDES | Spectators with a somewhat rowdy section? (6) |
| ESSAYS | Joseph Addison output |
| EXETER | ...... City, football club who play home matches at St James Park (6) |
| AIRONI | ...... Rugby, former Celtic League/PRO12 club who finished bottom in both 2010-11 and 2011-12 (6) |
| WALPOLE | Imprisoned in the Tower of London for some six months, a Kit-Cat Club member regarded as Britain's first prime minister, for whom Houghton Hall was built in the 1700s and whose son coined "serendipity |
| WHIG | Kit-Cat Club member in 18th-century London |
| POPE | Poet, Kit-Cat, Scriblerian, master of the heroic couplet and celebrator of the goddess Dulness in The Dunciad, whose villa in Twickenham, as seen in a painting by Turner, was demolished, leaving only |
| HALL | Anthony Michael ___ (one of the five main stars of 1985's "The Breakfast Club," who appeared publicly together for the first time since '85 at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo on Saturday |
| EXERCISE | Reading is to the mind what ___ is to the body: Joseph Addison (8) |
| INDULGE | “I will ____ my sorrows, and give way / To all the pangs and fury of despair” (Joseph Addison) |
| INCL | Is part of the kit [abbr.] |