| LADYCAROLINELAMB | Woman who described Lord Byron as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" |
| GEORGE | English poet whose collections include 1810's The Borough; described by Byron as 'nature's sternest painter (6) |
| CRABBE | English poet whose collections include 1810's The Borough; described by Byron as 'nature's sternest painter (6) |
| LORDBYRON | Poet described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" |
| BYRON | Poet described as "mad, bad and dangerous to know" by his lover Lady Caroline Lamb, nee Ponsonby (5) |
| 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) |
| SANDDAB | Fish that's sad, bad, 'n' dangerous to know (4,3) |
| SIREN | Fascinating woman (but dangerous to know) (5) |
| ARSENICAL | An eclair's fancy - and dangerous to eat |
| BANKOFMUMANDDAD | OK, fund blown: mad, bad man's needed to resort to this? (4,2,3,3,3) |
| NUTSHELL | Mad, bad place in which the truth resides? (8) |
| CALIGULA | Mad, bad Roman emperor, assassinated AD 41 (8) |
| DAVIDBELLAMY | Natural history man on TV may be mad, bad, lively |
| KENNETHTYNAN | English theatre critic and writer who described a critic as "a man who knows the way but can't drive the car" |
| BLACKMORE | Fruit-grower and novelist who described the New Forest, Exmoor, Yorkshire and Dartmoor in Cradock Nowell, Lorna Doone, Mary Anerley and Christowell respectively (9) |
| IDALUPINO | Actress and film director who described herself as the "poor man's Bette Davis" |
| WILLIAMHARVEY | Physician who described in detail the circulation of blood and became physician to King James I |
| ENO | Composer Brian who described ambient music as "an excuse to do nothing" |
| FRANKBRUNO | Boxer who described his sport as "the toughest and loneliest sport in the world" |
| NADINEDORRIES | MP who described David Cameron and George Osborne as "two arrogant posh boys" |
