| OLEARY | Surname of a purported incendiary cow |
| ESP | "Gift" of a purported mindreader, for short |
| PRETEXT | A purported reason for a course of action (7) |
| ANNE | Queen and last Stuart monarch, whose blood from a purported pinprick stained her white lace, thus representing the red heart or centre of the wild white lacy cow-parsley that bears her name today (4) |
| BLUR | Feature of many a purported ghost photo |
| SENNA | Large genus of flowering plants of the pea family - and the surname of a late Brazilian F1 racing driver (5) |
| HOLMES | Surname of a fictional detective who features in four novels and 56 short stories including A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles (6) |
| PAPARAZZI | This is the plural form of a word derived from Paparazzo, the surname of a photographer in the film La dolce vita (1959) by Federico Fellini. Its first known use was in 1961. |
| DUNLOP | A traditional Ayrshire cheese; or, the surname of a Scottish vet who invented a pneumatic tyre (6) |
| TRAPP | Surname of a family of Austrian singers in The Sound of Music (5) |
| DERRICK | The surname of a London hangman of the early 17th century became the word for what type of crane-like framework, such as above an oil well? (7) |
| OATES | Surname of a member of Scott's Antarctic Expedition of 1910 (5) |
| ISLEY | Surname of a group of fraternal singers |
| TALBOT | Surname of a 19th-century British pioneer of photography (6) |
| MCGUIRE | Surname of a trio of singing sisters |
| TUSHINGHAM | Surname of A Taste of Honey actress Rita (10) |
| GEMAYEL | Surname of a family of Lebanese political rulers (7) |
| ADAM | Surname of a famous family of Scottish architects (4) |
| WILLIAMS | Vaughan -; surname of a symphonist noted for works inducing The Lark Ascending (inspired by George Meredith's poem), Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and the English Folk Song Suite (8) |
| SPRINGFIELD | A city in Ohio, also the surname of a female pop singer (11) |
