| THINGIES | Their names are forgotten, taking nighties off (8) |
| PAINTERS | Their names are hidden in eight answers in this puzzle |
| DIAMONDS | Play areas that, despite their name, are actually squares |
| HOMEOWNERS | their names are on the deed |
| TVSHOWS | Their names are divided in the answers to the starred clues |
| GREATLAKES | Their names are remembered via the HOMES mnemonic |
| STRAIGHTMEN | Some actors ... like the four in this puzzle, when their names are written in uppercase letters |
| SALINGER | American author (1919-2010) whose first names are Jerome David (8) |
| DEEDPOLL | By which legal names are changed? (4,4) |
| ROLLCALL | Absentees are unable to give their names in this (4-4) |
| SCANDALS | Their names may have '-gate' suffix (8) |
| TORIAMOS | American singer-songwriter and pianist whose real first names are Myra Ellen (4,4) |
| GUERNSEY | With the capital St Peter Port, one of the Channel Islands after which a breed of dairy cattle and a sweater take their names (8) |
| TAUTONYM | What is the scientific term for Chloris chloris (the greenfinch), when the generic and the specific name are the same? (8) |
| PSEUDONYMS | Their names are put in writing which really aren't theirs! (10) |
| THESMURFS | Eight of their names are featured in this puzzle |
| DAVIDSON | William S Harley and his friend Arthur ... developed the iconic US motorcycle that bears both their names |
| BPNICHOL | Canadian poet/ writer whose first name initials and last name are combined as one name (b.1944 d.1988) |
| ATTICS | Some guitars are forgotten in them |
| ENVOI | Last part of poem's finale, useless when finales are forgotten |
