| BIOGRAPHY | book about someone's life |
| BIBLIOGRAPHICAL | About books, about someone's life, about ramblings essentially (15) |
| SUSPICION | Doubt about someone's honesty (9) |
| ECONOMIST | Mixed emotions about, about someone like Adam Smith (9) |
| DISCREDIT | Ring dishing dirt about someone ultimately (9) |
| WHITEWASH | Attempt to cover up incriminating facts about someone (9) |
| SIDESWIPE | A passing critical remark about someone or something (9) |
| RANCOROUS | How we feel about someone giving our corns a twinge (9) |
| EXAMINERS | They inspect instrument inventor upset about someone making digs? (9) |
| GOLDMINER | Ring model about someone in a rush? (4,5) |
| INSOLVENT | Very rude about someone on the rocks |
| DIGUPDIRT | Unearth damaging information about someone (3,2,4) |
| CHEAPSHOT | An unfair or unkind comment about someone vulnerable |
| SMELLARAT | Something fishy about someone making over 500 runs? Suspect something is afoot (5,1,3) |
| CERVANTES | "Fortune turns round like a mill-wheel, he was yesterday at the top, lies today at the bottom." He wrote about someone who tilted at windmills, in Don Quixote. Who is this? |
| WHATTAMAN | Salt-N-Pepa song about someone whose "voice got bass... with a Denzel face" |
| REFERENCE | For those looking to get out of 14 across, it says something about someone's character (9) |
| WARDROBE | Bear word about someone's clothes |
| SNUB | Be rude about someone's nose? (4) |
| ASKAFTER | Inquire about someone's wellbeing (3,5) |
