| CONFUCIUS | Chinese philosopher whose writings are the basis of a religion |
| MCGONAGALL | 3Dn 5Dn whose writings are rarely scanned (7,10) |
| WILLIAM | 3Dn 5Dn whose writings are rarely scanned (7,10) |
| POKEMON | Japanese fictional creatures that are the basis of a video and card-game franchise (7) |
| APRICOTS | Fruits that are the basis of Marillenschnaps |
| ISAAC | His books are the basis of TV series Foundation, - Asimov (5) |
| WILLIAMS | Author of "The Perfect Find," the basis of a Netflix film of the same name |
| ELIOT | Nicknamed "possum" by fellow poet Ezra Pound, the author of a series of "cat poems", written for his godchildren, that later formed the basis of a record-breaking musical (5) |
| ADORNO | Theodor, Frankfurt-born philosopher whose writings include 1966's Negative Dialectics (6) |
| NYANJA | Language of a people living chiefly in Malawi also known as Chichewa that forms the basis of a pidgin used as a lingua franca (6) |
| CAT | Any one of the felines depicted in a poem by T. S. Eliot that serves as the basis of a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber (3) |
| GENOISE | An Italian version of a chiffon or sponge, served as a cake in its own right or as the basis of a lady's finger, madeleine or mokatine (7) |
| PROSERPINA | Ancient Roman goddess whose story is the basis of a myth of springtime |
| AMOS | Prophet of the 8c B.C. whose writings form one book of the Old Testament (4) |
| STEPHENKING | Horror writer whose stories are the basis for the Hulu series Castle Rock: 2 wds. |
| PEAS | Split legumes that are the basis for a thick green soup |
| BRAMANTE | Architect and designer of Cortile del Belvedere whose original plan for St Peter's Basilica formed the basis of a later design by Michelangelo (8) |
| MATERIAL | Substance from which something is made; cloth, fabric or textile; jokes, songs etc comprising a performer's act; or, the facts, ideas, notes etc collected as the basis of a book (8) |
| RIFF | A figure, lick, ostinato, refrain or other repeated phrase forming the basis of a song/groove in jazz /pop; or, a humorous monologue (4) |
| ELGAR | Forming the basis of a long friendship, who was helped with technical details by the conductor W.H. Reed when he was commissioned by the violinist Fritz Kreisler to write Violin Concerto (1910)? (5) |
