| LEHRER | Tom ..., US mathematician and satirist whose songs include The Vatican Rag (6) |
| SHANNON | Claude ---, US mathematician and engineer who pioneered information theory |
| TOMLEHER | "The Vatican Rag" songwriter |
| HORACE | Roman poet and satirist whose works include the Ars Poetica (6) |
| TOMLEHRER | US satirist whose songs include The Masochism Tango (3,6) |
| LEHMAN | Tom ...... , US golfer; 1996 winner of The Open Championship (6) |
| CLANCY | Tom ---, US author of Cold War thrillers |
| IRONMAIDEN | English heavy metal band whose songs include 'The Trooper' and 'Run for the Hills' (4,6) |
| CARLYLE | Born in Ecclefechan in 1795, the historian, philosopher and satirist whose major works include Sartor Resartus and The French Revolution: A History (7) |
| MARVELL | Andrew ___, 17th century poet and satirist whose works include The Mower's Song and Last Instructions to a Painter (7) |
| JEROMEKERN | U.S. composer of musical comedy whose songs include The Song Is You and Ol' Man River (6,4) |
| STEVEMILLERBAND | Rock group formed in 1966 whose songs include The Joker (5,6,4) |
| CATS | 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical whose songs include 'The Rum Tum Tugger' and 'Memory' (4) |
| CHRISREA | Late singer-songwriter whose songs include The Road To Hell and Auberge (5,3) |
| ERICHKASTNER | German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist whose best-known children's book is Emil and the Detectives |
| SAHL | Mort, American comedian and satirist whose autobiography was called Heartland (4) |
| NASH | US mathematician, John, subject of the book and film A Beautiful Mind (4) |
| LEAR | Edward, 19th Century English humorist whose nonsense songs include The Jumblies and Calico Pie (4) |
| EDWARDLEAR | 19th-century English humorist whose nonsense songs include The Jumblies (6,4) |
| OROURKE | P J ___, US satirist whose volumes include Holidays in Hell and Holidays in Heck (7) |
