| ASBYATT | Writer of the 1990 Booker Prize-winning novel Possession (1,1,5) |
| BYATT | A. S. -; author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Possession (5) |
| NAOMI | Author of the 1990 feminist book The Beauty Myth, _ Woolf (5) |
| POSSESSION | Novel for which AS Byatt won the 1990 Booker prize |
| BRANDIS | Late American actor, star of the 1990 miniseries It and The NeverEnding Story II, Jonathan - (7) |
| BRUNDLE | Martin, the winner, with John Nielsen and Price Cobb, of the 1990 Le Mans 24-hour race (7) |
| TIMROTH | Star of the 1990 artist biopic Vincent & Theo: 2 wds. |
| OCONNOR | Sinéad ---, singer of the 1990 No 1 Nothing Compares 2 U |
| VOGUE | Madonna's first UK No.1 single of the 1990s, from the soundtrack album of the 1990 film Dick Tracy (5) |
| APENNYMORENOT | Jeffrey Archer novel published in 1976 and the title of the 1990 television adaptation starring Ed A |
| ROBSON | Bobby, England football manager who took the side to the semi-finals of the 1990 FIFA World Cup (6) |
| OLEARY | Whose penalty put Ireland into the quarter finals of the 1990 World Cup? (6) |
| SCHILLACI | Who scored the goal that knocked Ireland out of the 1990 World Cup? (9) |
| PAZ | Octavio ___, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature (3) |
| GORBACHEV | Mikhail, winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize (9) |
| ZEFFIRELLI | Italian director of the 1990 version of Hamlet, Franco ... |
| JIMSHERIDAN | Director of the 1990 film The Field which starred Richard Harris (3,8) |
| ODESSA | Texas city that's the setting of the 1990 book "Friday Night Lights" |
| WHIT | _ Stillman, writer-director of the 1990 drama film Metropolitan (4) |
| CIAO | The mascot of the 1990 World Cup took its name from which Italian salutation? (4) |
