| WALPOLE | Son of the first British prime minister who built Strawberry Hill House and wrote The Castle of Otra |
| HORACEWALPOLE | Art historian and politician who built Strawberry Hill and wrote the novel The Castle Of Otranto (6,7) |
| ESTATES | Settings for "The Haunting of Hill House" and "The Haunting of Bly Manor" |
| HORACE | 18th-century English writer and Whig politician, owner of Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham (6) |
| STUARTGRAHAM | Son of the first 500cc world champion who was no slouch himself in the 1960s. (6,6) |
| SETH | Third son of the first man |
| ABEL | Second son of the first man |
| BONARLAW | Andrew ___, the first British Prime Minister born outside the British Isles (5,3) |
| MELBOURNE | Viscount, titled politician who served as the first British prime minister in Queen Victoria's reign (9) |
| RAMSAY | Wig-maker and poet who founded Britain's first circulating library and wrote the The Gentle Shepherd and compilation of Scots songs The Tea- Table Miscellany (6) |
| MARRYAT | Naval officer who developed a code of maritime flag signalling and wrote The Children of the New Forest and a number of sea stories (7) |
| CARNAP | Philosopher who was a founding member of the Vienna Circle and wrote The Logical Structure of the World (6) |
| KENT | 'Garden of England', site of the 'castle of queens, queen of castles' and much of the North Downs (4) |
| STEELE | A member of the Kit-Cat Club who co-founded The Spectator and wrote The Tatler under the pen name Isaac Bickerstaff (6) |
| GIBBONS | Creator of the Carved Room at Petworth House and of a lime-wood cravat so realistic that its former owner Sir Horace Walpole wore it to greet visitors at Strawberry Hill (7) |
| BRECHT | German playwright and poet, 1898-1956, who co-wrote The Threepenny Opera and wrote The Caucasian Chalk Circle (6) |
| GUNN | Who was born in Melbourne in 1870 and wrote The Little Black Princess (1905) and We of the Never-Never (1908) (4) |
| EDWARDLEAR | Author and poet who popularised limericks and wrote The Owl and The Pussycat (6,4) |
| HORATIOWALPOLE | Name of multiple British earls (one of which changed his name slightly and wrote the first Gothic novel) |
| ROBERTWALPOLE | Sir -- --, 1st Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, first British Prime Minister (6,7) |
