| BENJONSON | English playwright and poet and the only person buried upright in Westminster Abbey (3,6) |
| SUPPE | Franz von -, Dalmatian-born composer best known for the works Light Cavalry and Poet And Peasant (5) |
| HOLY | Describes sacred person buried in Jericho lyceum (4) |
| IBERT | French classical composer awarded a Prix de Rome for his cantata Le Poete et la Fee (The Poet and the Fairy) (5) |
| MCCLURE | Poet and The Beard playwright, Michael |
| DESPERADO | The Eagles' second album and the only one to feature the band on the cover |
| APHRABEHN | English Restoration playwright and poet noted for The Rover (5,4) |
| YESTERDAY | Film starring Himesh Patel as the only person in the world who remembers the Beatles |
| CONGREVE | William ___, English playwright and poet whose comedies include Love for Love and The Way of the World |
| MIDDLETON | Thomas _, English Jacobean playwright and poet (9) |
| SCHMIRLER | She claimed to be the only person with a name that rhymed with the sport she played |
| MARLOWE | Christopher ___, influential English playwright and poet stabbed to death in a Deptford tavern in 1593 (7) |
| JOHNGAY | English playwright and poet of the early 18th century (4,3) |
| LEWIS | Honoured with a memorial stone in Westminster Abbey, author of the Narnia books including The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Silver Chair (5) |
| TITAN | The largest moon of Saturn and the only moon in the solar system known to have clouds and a dense atmosphere. It is the only body other than Earth that is known to currently have liquid on its surface |
| SLAM | In 1988 Steffi Graf became the only person in the century to win a true Golden ..., ie the Australian, French, US and Wimbledon titles in the same calendar year as Olympic gold |
| JOHNDENHAM | Anglo-Irish poet and courtier buried in Westminster Abbey whose works include The Sophy and Cooper's Hill |
| LOBSTER | The most important commercial crustacean in Europe and the only extant species in the genus Nephrops (6,7) |
| NORWAY | The most important commercial crustacean in Europe and the only extant species in the genus Nephrops (6,7) |
| PAULING | The only person to have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and for Peace, and known for his research in quantum chemistry and molecular biology (last name only) |
