| DOCTORJOHNSON | Treat Texan who lived in the margins here, noted literary figure (6,7) |
| ITCANT | "___ Happen Here" (noted 1930s play) |
| LYNDONJOHNSON | Texan who resigned his Senate seat to become John F. Kennedy's vice president: 2 wds. |
| MERMAIDTAVERN | Cheapside watering hole frequented by Elizabethan literary figures in the Fraternity of Sireniacal Gentlemen |
| LATERALINKING | Editor's marks in the margin? |
| FORDMADOXFORD | Working dad from university city a key literary figure (4,5,4) |
| MAINCHARACTER | "Another literary figure whose qualities contrast my own!?" |
| HARDY | Dorset's celebrated literary figure who used the names Shaston or Palladour to describe the Saxon hilltop town Shaftesbury in the fictional Wessex of his novels Jude the Obscure and Tess of the D'Urbe |
| ENSOR | Les XX co-founder who lived in the seaside town of Ostend, his works include The Intrigue and The Ba |
| NEREUS | In Greek mythology, a sea god who lived in the depths of the sea with his wife Doris and their daughters |
| BROTH | What the old woman who lived in the in a shoe served her many children (without bread) before bed? (5) |
| YANA | Extinct North American Indians who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California |
| PARKES | The 'Father of Federation', who lived in the Kenilworth house (and died there): Sir ..... ...... (5,6) |
| ERIE | One of the Great Lakes, named after a native people who lived in the area (4) |
| LIPREADERS | They're following the mouthy movement, in a manner of speaking, for patron of the library in the margins (3-7) |
| JOB | Old Testament prophet who lived in the land of Uz (3) |
| ABYSSINIAN | Former African who lived in the Gulf? (10) |
| IROQUOIS | Native American people who lived in the north-eastern U.S. and eastern Canada (8) |
| PUFF | Dragon friend of Jackie Paper who lived in the land of Honah Lee (4) |
| JANINE | __ Butcher, millionaire who's lived in the Square for years (6) |
