| CALLEDTOTHEBAR | Summoned by publican and became a lawyer |
| DEY | Partridge Family member who became a lawyer in LA Law (Susan ---) |
| GHOST | Spirit initially gulped by publican |
| BETJEMAN | UK Poet Laureate 1972-84 who wrote A Few Late Chrysanthemums, Summoned by Bells, Diary of a Church Mouse, Trains and Buttered Toast: Selected Radio Talks and Tennis Whites and Teacakes (8) |
| INN | Place for a publican and some sinners (3) |
| TAVERNER | Old publican and sailor entertaining French writer (8) |
| BARS | Publican and prisoner are both behind them (4) |
| CLWYD | Which Welsh county was replaced in 1996 by Denbighshire and Flintshire and became a 'preserved' county? (5) |
| TOOKOFF | Produced a parody and became a success |
| MICKCRONIN | Gerringong publican and Eels centre who kicked 865 goals for the club (4,6) |
| BEHINDBARS | Place for publicans and sinners? (6,4) |
| ITALY | Country that abolished its monarchy following a referendum in 1946 and became a republic (5) |
| HOLYGHOST | Book by John Sandford which was part of the Virgil Flowers novel series and became a NYT 2018 Bestseller: 2 wds. |
| READYPLAYERONE | Science fiction novel by Ernest Cline that released in 2011 and became a NYT Bestseller again in 2018: 3 wds. |
| THEFALLEN | Thriller novel by David Baldacci which was part of Memory Man series and became a NYT 2018 Bestseller: 2 wds. |
| JOWETT | Benjamin -; scholar who translated works of Plato, Aristotle and Thucydides and became a master of Balliol College, Oxford (6) |
| EDITH | Alf left Hatfield and became a woman (5) |
| SYBIL | Plausibly Paul went away and became a woman (5) |
| USHER | Pusher lost his head and became a doorkeeper (5) |
| WENTTOPOT | Deteriorated and became a drug-taker (4,2,3) |
