| BORGIA | Cesare, Italian cardinal and politician who was the model for The Prince by Machiavelli (6) |
| LOMBROSO | Cesare --, Italian criminologist (1835-1909) (8) |
| NIPPER | Dog that was the model for the 1898 painting His Master's Voice (6) |
| CESARE | - Borgia was the model for Machiavelli's The Prince (6) |
| HAWTHORNE | Author and critic who was the model for the George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart character Sheridan Whiteside |
| NEALCASSADY | US writer who was the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the Jack Kerouac novel On the Road (4 |
| ALEXANDER | Author and critic who was the model for the George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart character Sheridan Whiteside (9,9) |
| WOOLLCOTT | Author and critic who was the model for the George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart character Sheridan Whiteside (9,9) |
| BRIGHT | John ___, British Quaker and politician who was a co-founder of the Anti- Corn Law League in the late 1830s (6) |
| RANDOM | 1941 novel by James Hilton about a wealthy businessman and politician who was invalided out of the army during World War I (6,7) |
| NSUMAX | The base model for the German machine raced by Hermann Paul Muller. (3,3) |
| ALGORE | U.S. politician who was the subject of the 2006 documentary film An Inconvenient Truth (2,4) |
| TOYOTA | Japanese car manufacturer whose first car was the Model AA in 1936 (6) |
| GNOSIS | Backs model for the most part on vocal composition with knowledge of spiritual mysteries (6) |
| FILLIP | Lift prince by the ears? (6) |
| PRINCE | 'The ---', 1532 work by Machiavelli (6) |
| EDWARD | The journalist has room for the Prince (6) |
| NORTON | Author whose childhood Georgian home became the model for Firbank Hall in her classic tales about a family of tiny borrowers (6) |
| LESSEN | Contract model for the audience (6) |
| HAMLET | A small cluster of country houses for the Prince of Denmark |