| LORDBYRON | Which Romantic poet, author of Don Juan, was described as 'mad, bad and dangerous to know'? (4,5) |
| BYRON | Which 19th-century poet was labelled "mad, bad and dangerous to know"? (5) |
| HATTER | This Wonderland character's tea party was described as mad |
| GASTRONOMIC | ... relating to which romantics go crazy |
| AVILA | Where Saint Teresa was born and Don Juan was buried |
| RAKE | Don Juan was one. |
| UNAWARE | Juan was, we agree, regularly out in the dark (7) |
| LADYCAROLINELAMB | British aristocrat and novelist who described Lord Byron as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" |
| VALENTINO | Late Italian fashion designer, born in 1932, whose style was described as jet-set chic (9) |
| ARSENICAL | An eclair's fancy - and dangerous to eat |
| CERVANTES | Spanish author of Don Quixote |
| CHILE | Gabriela Mistral, a poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945 and was described as "a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world," belonged to this country |
| UCLA | Berkeley was the radical campus of the 60s but in the 30s it was this Los Angeles university that was described as a hotbed of communism (1,1,1,1) |
| DRESDEN | Before WWII, which beautiful European city was described as "the Florence on the Elbe"? (7) |
| DIOR | In 1947, which fashion house's collection was described as the "New Look"? (4) |
| BANJO | Earl Scruggs was described as the Paganini of the what? (5) |
| SANDDAB | Fish that's sad, bad, 'n' dangerous to know (4,3) |
| CROONER | Late Bing Crosby was described as this sort of singer (7) |
| ACT | Tallulah Bankhead was described as being "more of an ... than an actress" |
| TWEEZERS | They extract middle verse after it was described as affectedly cutesy in last letter |
