| FRANKMUIR | Author of the Walpole Orange |
| MUIR | Frank ___, author of 1993 novel The Walpole Orange (4) |
| JAMES | The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove author whose literary friends included Hugh Walpole, Edith Wharton and Constance Fenimore Woolson (5) |
| CASTLE | The ___ of Otranto gothic novel by Horace Walpole which tells the story of Manfred and his family |
| RHAPSODY | "Have done with this ____ of impertinence" (Walpole, The Castle of Otranto) |
| KINGS | Constituent college of the University of Cambridge whose alumni include Robert Walpole, Roger Fry, E. M. Forster and Alan Turing (5) |
| OTRANTO | Easternmost town of Italy, used as the setting of a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole (7) |
| GIBBONS | Creator of the Carved Room at Petworth House and of a lime-wood cravat so realistic that its former owner Sir Horace Walpole wore it to greet visitors at Strawberry Hill (7) |
| OLDETONIANS | The likes of Walpole, Balfour and Macmillan led nation so badly |
| GRAY | Friend of Horace Walpole who wrote Ode on the Spring and Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (4) |
| KNELLER | Artist who painted the Hampton Court Beauties series and portraits of Kit-Cat Club members including Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, John Vanbrugh and Robert Walpole (7) |
| SERENDIPITY | Word, coined by Horace Walpole, for the faculty of making fortunate or happy discoveries by accident (11) |
| CATHEDRAL | "The ...", 1922 novel by Hugh Walpole (9) |
| OLDLADIES | "The ... ...", 1924 novel by Hugh Walpole (3,6) |
| HORACE | - Walpole, eighteenth century English author |
| WHIGS | Walpole and Pitt the Elder, e.g. (5) |
| HOUGHTON | Hall that was built in the 1720s for Sir Robert Walpole (8) |
| WHIG | Member of a political faction or party whose leaders included Robert Walpole and Charles Grey (4) |
| EARLS | Disraeli and Walpole, e.g. |
| EARL | Horace Walpole, for example |
