| GROCK | Swiss clown whose real name was Charles Adrien Wettach (5) |
| BOBO | Classic clown whose real last name was Barnett |
| LECORBUSIER | Swiss-born French architect and town planner whose real name was Charles Edouard Jeanneret |
| BUDTINGWELL | Homicide star whose real name was Charles (3,8) |
| HARPO | What name was used by the unspeaking Marx brother whose real name was Adolph? (5) |
| TWAIN | Mark --, US author whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens (5) |
| GRECO | El ___, painter whose real name was Domenikos Theotocopoulos (5) |
| BORIS | Horror film actor whose real name was William Pratt (5,7) |
| GRANT | Cary, actor whose real name was Archibald Leach (5) |
| STEVE | __ McDonald, Coronation Street clown whose girlfriend moves out this week (5) |
| LLOYD | Marie ___, English music-hall entertainer whose real name was Matilda Alice Victoria Wood |
| ELCID | Spanish soldier whose real name was Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (2,3) |
| OUIDA | British popular novelist, whose real name was Marie Louise de la Ramee, best known for Under Two Flags |
| PEPIN | PBS personality Jacques who once was Charles de Gaulle's personal chef |
| PROFESSORX | In Marvel comics and films, leader of a mutant group whose birth name was Charles Francis Xavier (9,1) |
| KARLOFF | Horror film actor whose real name was William Pratt (5,7) |
| HARRYHOUDINI | Magician and escapologist whose real name was Erich Weiss (5,7) |
| BIONICWOMAN | Lindsay Wagner's superhero, whose real name was Jaime Sommers (6,5) |
| BLONDIN | Charles, 19th century French acrobat whose real name was JeanFrancois Gravelet (7) |
| OHENRY | American writer whose real name was William Sidney Porter (1,5) |
