| BRANSON | Virgin Group founder known as "Dr Yes" who describes himself as a "tieloathing adventurer and troubl |
| NERD | No longer an insult: Like many other superthinkers, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos proudly describes himself as a ___ |
| WATKINS | BBC1's Really Wild Show host Howie ... describes himself as a 'Performance biologist' |
| AHAB | Melville character who describes himself as "more a demon than a man" |
| LOSANGELES | Farzad Kohan, who describes himself as an abstract painter, is based in this California city. |
| ERIC | Animated character Cartman who describes himself as "big-boned" |
| SPOONER | Did he describe himself as a O21O, or clan of the moth? (7) |
| WILLIAM | Forename of a Lake poet who described glow-worms as Earth-born stars, an evening as beauteous and calm, a multitude of golden daffodils as a host and a crowd and himself as a lonely floating cloud (7) |
| TOOTSIE | 1982 film starring Dustin Hoffman as an actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role (7) |
| ORWELL | Pen name of an author who describes his experiences of "healthy, outdoor work" as a hop-picker in his diaries, an essay and in his second novel, A Clergyman's Daughter (6) |
| OCASEY | Painted by artist Augustus John, a playwright who describes a magic rooster in Cock-a-Doodle Dandy (6) |
| JASPERJOHNS | American contemporary artist who played himself as a kleptomaniac in The Simpsons, in the episode Mom and Pop Art |
| BARNARDO | Charged 88 times with kidnapping for removing children from abusive homes, this pioneer of orphanages was known as Dr ... |
| EOWYN | In J R R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, a noblewoman of Rohan who describes herself as a "shieldmaiden" |
| MADHAVAN | Actor who reinvented himself as a villain in 'Shaitaan' and 'Kesari 2,' shared candidly about his journey in the entertainment industry.(Last Name) (8) |
| DUALIPA | "New Rules" singer who describes Coldplay frontman Chris Martin as a "mentor": 2 wds. |
| DEFLEOPARD | Hard of hearing big cat, who fancies himself as a hard rock artist? |
| ALBA | Jessica who describes herself on Instagram as a "Terrible speller, loyal friend" |
| STING | Rocker who plays himself, as a murder suspect, on "Only Murders in the Building" |
| SEDARIS | Humorist who describes his stint working as a Macy's Christmas elf in "Santaland Diaries" |
