| SAMUEL | _ _ _ _ _ _ Pepys, English naval administrator and diarist of life in London in the 1660s (6) |
| EGAN | Author of "Life in London" |
| TYBURN | Former place of execution in London in the area now known as Marble Arch (6) |
| LOAFER | Slip-on shoe first available in London in the late 1840s (6) |
| OXTAIL | Soup which is believed to have been invented in Spitalfields, London in the 17th Century (6) |
| SAMUELPEPYS | English naval administrator and MP famous for his diary, first published in the 19th century (6,5) |
| OFDOGS | District of East London, in the shadow of Canary Wharf (4,2,4) |
| PEPYS | Samuel ___, English naval administrator and MP famous for his diary, first published in the 19th Century (5) |
| NYLONS | Wouldn't they stretch from New York to London in the war years? (6) |
| LINCOLNSINNFIELDS | The largest square in London in the borough of Camden (8,3,6) |
| THEYEOMENOFTHEGUARD | Gilbert and Sullivan opera set in the Tower of London in the 16th century (3.6.2.3,5) |
| JOHNEVELYN | English gardener and diarist who was a founding Fellow of the UK's Royal Society (4,6) |
| GRIME | Genre of electronic music developed from UK garage in London in the early 2000s (5) |
| TOM | Corinthian companion of Jerry in Pierce Egan's Life in London or, a queen cat's male counterpart (3) |
| DODOBIRD | Flightless species last seen in the 1660s |
| DODO | Bird that went extinct in the 1660s |
| GIDE | French novelist, dramatist, critic and diarist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 (5,4) |
| MODS | A youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s. |
| YES | Prog-rock group formed in London in the late 1960s (3) |
| SOHO | A district of Central London in the City of Westminster, chiefly known for its restaurants and clubs (4) |
