| RADICAL | The sort of 'chic' 4 down identified and wrote about in 1970 (7) |
| NILE | _ Rodgers, American musician and co-founder of Chic (4) |
| BRANDED | Such goods can be identified and produced all round (7) |
| TOWER | Wrote about in column (5) |
| TOWERED | Rose and wrote about journalist (7) |
| UMAMI | Savoury taste category first scientifically identified - and named - by Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda in 1908 (5) |
| NIVEN | Actor who starred as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and wrote about his life in the memoir The Moon's a Balloon (5) |
| PRINCECHARMING | Pantomime hero, prig having sort of chic manner (6,7) |
| RADICCHIO | Receiver seizes sort of chic plant (9) |
| LINEOUT | All the jumpers in bar no longer chic (4-3) |
| 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) |
| DERRIDA | Exponent of deconstructionism who taught philosophy at the Sorbonne and wrote Of Grammatology and Writing and Difference (7) |
| LESSING | Which novelist was born in Iran, raised in Rhodesia and wrote The Golden Notebook (1962)? (7) |
| RODGERS | Nile ___, guitarist and co-founder of CHIC (7) |
| CHEMISE | See him excited after first sign of chic female undergarment (7) |
| WALPOLE | Son of the first British prime minister who built Strawberry Hill House and wrote The Castle of Otra |
| NOTATED | Recorded over thanks, in short, and wrote things down (7) |
| TOLSTOY | Who left university without a degree and wrote the masterpiece War and Peace (1869)? (7) |
| NOTICED | Observed and wrote down "Held in charge" (7) |
| COBBETT | William ___, English journalist and social reformer who founded The Political Register and wrote Rural Rides |
