| LEHRER | Tom, The Elements U.S. songwriter and humorist (6) |
| IVORCUTLER | Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist whose albums include Dandruff, Velvet Donkey and Jammy Smears |
| IRVING | ____ Berlin, U.S. songwriter and composer born in 1888 whose songs included Puttin' on the Ritz (6) |
| GIMBEL | Norman, U.S. songwriter who wrote the English lyrics to The Girl from Ipanema (6) |
| LERNER | Alan Jay, U.S. songwriter who collaborated with Frederick Loewe on My Fair Lady (6) |
| QUINCYJONES | U.S. songwriter and record producer noted for producing the Thriller album (6,5) |
| JEROME | Author and humorist who wrote of the ostensible boating adventures of three fellows, and fox terrier Montmorency, in his comic novel Three Men in a Boat (6) |
| BURTBACHARACH | U.S. songwriter and pianist born in 1928 who collaborated with lyricist Hal David (4,9) |
| ROGERS | Will, US actor and humorist who played Abel Frake in the 1933 film State Fair (6) |
| CLANCY | Tom, The Hunt for Red October novelist (6) |
| THANKS | Tom, the American actor, follows head of theatre to say "Ta!" (6) |
| ALCAPP | American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner, which he created in 1934 |
| SAWYER | Tom, the woodcutter (6) |
| CRUISE | Tom the actor has holiday afloat |
| ASTIMEGOESBY | Jazz song by U.S. songwriter Herman Hupfeld that features in the 1942 film Casablanca (2,4,4,2) |
| PIG | In the nursery rhyme, Tom, Tom, the piper's son, stole this animal (and away did run) |
| MARKTWAIN | U. S. novelist and humorist (4,5) |
| RUN | "Tom, Tom the piper's son Stole a pig and away he ..." nursery rhyme (3) |
| SON | "Tom, Tom, the Piper's ___" |
| STOCKTON | Frank R. --, American writer and humorist, author of the novel 'The House of Martha' (8) |
