| LOTHARIO | Character in 1702 Nicholas Rowe stage play The Fair Penitent whose name has come to mean any rake or libertine |
| LADYBOUNTIFUL | Character in Farquhar's The Beaux" Stratagem whose name has come to mean any woman dispensing charit |
| XANTHIPPE | Wife of Socrates, whose name has come to mean any quarrelsome woman (9) |
| HOLLYWOOD | Area of Los Angeles whose name has come to be a shorthand reference for the US film industry (9) |
| TARGA | Porsche model whose name came to mean any semi-convertible car with a roll bar behind the seats |
| WALTERMITTY | Literature: What character's name has come to mean a timid daydreamer? |
| ROWE | Dramatist whose works include Tamerlane, Lady Jane Grey and The Fair Penitent; or, an actor who starred in the 1985 film Young Sherlock Holmes (4) |
| AVERAGE | Mean the name has come back to fashion (7) |
| NICHOLASROWE | English author of plays including Tamerlane (1702) and The Fair Penitent (1703); Poet Laureate 1715-18 (8,4) |
| GREY | Lady Jane -; depicted in a play by Nicholas Rowe and a painting by Paul Delaroche, a queen for nine days before she was beheaded and replaced with Mary Tudor (4) |
| TINE | A projecting pinnacle, point or prong of something, such as an antler, harrow, (pitch)fork, rake or trident (4) |
| YARDIE | Term which can mean any Jamaican, but when used in other countries usually means gang members (6) |
| BENBOW | John ?, Royal Navy vice-admiral who died in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1702 |
| ANNE | Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland who ascended the throne In 1702 (4) |
| NOSHADE | "Don't mean any disrespect," in modern lingo |
| PLATEAU | What takes its meaning from a psychological term and means any period of minimal or no growth? (7) |
| ROUE | A rake or dissipated man |
| OGLER | Rake or wolf |
| ITIN | Words after rake or pack |
| LIBERTINE | A rake or debauchee (9) |
