| ETTORESCHMITZ | What is the birth name of Italo Svevo, who was taught English by James Joyce and wrote The Confessio |
| ERICNELSON | What is the birth name of the US singer whose single Poor Little Fool (1958) was the first number on |
| ZENO | "Confession of ----', 1923 novel by Italo Svevo (4) |
| LADYGAGA | Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta is the birth name of this singer (4,4) |
| MADRID | What is the birth city of actor Penelope Cruz? (6) |
| LARUSHKASKIKNE | What was the birth-name of the Lithuanian actor who played SFC Raymond Shaw in The Manchurian Candid |
| BINCHY | Author of novels including Circle of Friends and A Week in Winter who outsold James Joyce and Oscar Wilde (6) |
| CARNAP | Philosopher who was a founding member of the Vienna Circle and wrote The Logical Structure of the World (6) |
| STEELE | A member of the Kit-Cat Club who co-founded The Spectator and wrote The Tatler under the pen name Isaac Bickerstaff (6) |
| AKIHIRO | The primary antagonist of Digimon Data Squad, and the birth name of supervillain Daken (7) |
| PLATO | Philosopher who was taught by Socrates and who taught Aristotle (5) |
| RAMSAY | Wig-maker and poet who founded Britain's first circulating library and wrote the The Gentle Shepherd and compilation of Scots songs The Tea- Table Miscellany (6) |
| MARRYAT | Naval officer who developed a code of maritime flag signalling and wrote The Children of the New Forest and a number of sea stories (7) |
| GUNN | Who was born in Melbourne in 1870 and wrote The Little Black Princess (1905) and We of the Never-Never (1908) (4) |
| EDMUND | - Ironside; son of Ethelred the Unready who was succeeded as king of the English by Canute (6) |
| CLOUD | One of the forenames in the birth name of English singer Dido (5) |
| PENNANTS | Sounds like three Hail Marys and two Our Fathers for flying the flag for James Joyce and Samuel Beckett? (8) |
| WALPOLE | Son of the first British prime minister who built Strawberry Hill House and wrote The Castle of Otra |
| HORACEWALPOLE | Art historian and politician who built Strawberry Hill and wrote the novel The Castle Of Otranto (6,7) |
| BRECHT | German playwright and poet, 1898-1956, who co-wrote The Threepenny Opera and wrote The Caucasian Chalk Circle (6) |
