| EECUMMINGS | US poet and painter who wrote The Enormous Room in 1922 and Tulips and Chimneys a year later (1,1,8) |
| LERMONTOV | Mikhail ___, Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter who wrote the novel A Hero of Our Time |
| CUMMINGS | EE, US poet who authored the novel The Enormous Room (8) |
| BLAKE | William _, English poet and painter who wrote Songs Of Innocence (1789) |
| USSR | Country established in 1922 and dissolved in 1991, in short (4) |
| STOWE | - House; ducal palace set within 750 acres of parkland in Buckinghamshire that was saved from demolition in 1922 and since used as a school (5) |
| SWEEP | One giving the chimney a brush up? |
| CRAZYHORSE | Sioux chief who helped defeat Custer at Little Bighorn and who was killed in custody a year later (5,5) |
| CARTWRIGHT | Nancy, U.S. actress and painter who voices Bart in the The Simpsons (10) |
| STEPHENKING | Novelist who in 1999 was hit by a van in Maine and in 2002 announced his retirement; he published his his next novel a year later, and has added 25 since |
| JESSYENORMAN | US opera singer who sang at the 1996 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Atlanta and at the second inauguration of Bill Clinton a year later |
| YELLOWSTONE | Name of the enormous crater in the western-central portion of northwestern Wyoming formed by a cataclysmic volcanic eruption some 640,000 years ago. It is found in (and shares the name of) one of the |
| ULRICH | Mr Graf, Swiss racer who won a 50cc GP in Yugoslavia before being killed at the same circuit a year later. (6) |
| ROSSETTI | Dante Gabriel, English poet and painter who was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelite movement (8) |
| STEEPLEJACKS | People who are trained and skilled in the construction and repair of tall towers, spires and chimneys (12) |
| NICE | EU treaty rejected by the Irish electorate in 2001 and then accepted a year later. (4) |
| COCAINE | Song written and recorded by J J Cale in 1976 and covered by Eric Clapton a year later |
| MORTON | Prelate who was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1486 and Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VII a year later (6) |
| ARIEL | Sylvia Plath's posthumous anthology featuring the eponymous poem and others including Elm, Poppies in July, Sheep in Fog, The Bee Meeting and Tulips (5) |
| CENSUS | What happened one year later in Scotland than the rest of the UK in 2022? (6) |
