| TIBOUCHINA | ___ urvilleana is the so-called 'glory bush' from Brazil (10) |
| DICKCHENEY | Vice president under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009: 2 wds. |
| JEB | Bush from Florida |
| CHESSBOARD | The "windmill" tactic can be devastating here; 13-year-old Bobby Fischer used it to win the so-called Game of the Century in 1956 |
| ALAINLOCKE | The so-called dean of the Harlem Renaissance |
| HUNTSVILLE | The so-called "Rocket City" of the South |
| TIMETUNNEL | The... so-called sci-fi TV series of the 1960s... or 1850s... or whenever you like? (4,6) |
| DRAGRACING | Motor sport that uses the so-called 'Christmas tree' light starting system (4,6) |
| MARTINAMIS | British author of the so-called "London Trilogy" |
| PETERHIGGS | British theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate associated with the so-called "God particle" (5,5) |
| PUGLIA | Italian name for the region forming the heel of the boot of Italy, site of Lecce, the so-called "Florence of the South" (6) |
| AIDA | The "A" in the so-called ABCs of Opera, the most-performed operas in the Met's history |
| NEPAL | Where the so-called "Roof of the World" is |
| ANTARES | The so-called "heart of the scorpion" in the night sky |
| SCANDAL | Christine Keeler was the call-girl at the heart of Britain's political crisis of 1963, the so-called |
| PSEUDONYM | Doesn't say much about his real name to one of the so-called writers from the paper (9) |
| CANNES | Film-festival city near to the Lerins Islands and Ile Sainte-Marguerite, where the so-called man in the iron mask spent 11 years isolated in a fortress prison (6) |
| GLORIOUS | The so-called ___ Revolution that resulted in the accession of William and Mary to the throne (8) |
| ELMORE | ___ James, the so-called "King of the Slide Guitar" |
| CERF | Vint ___, one of the so-called "fathers of the Internet" |
