| PONGO | In literature, the nickname of Reginald Twistleton in the Wodehousian Uncle Fred stories; or, the main male Dalmatian in The Hundred and One Dalmatians (5) |
| EASTERNER | Resident of the Nutmeg State or the Bay State |
| BERTIE | First name of the Wodehousian character with the valet Jeeves (6) |
| CASS | The business school of City, University of London - or the mama of the Mamas and the Papas (4) |
| WHATHO | Wodehousian greeting to doctor without cover (4,2) |
| ANDRIC | Ivo ___, Serbian author awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature; The Bridge on the Drina (1945) (6) |
| ENID | In literature, the personification of purity |
| SCARLETPIMPERNEL | In literature, the pseudonym of Sir Percy Blakeney |
| NURSE | Relationship of Valerie to Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton in novels by P. G. Wodehouse (5) |
| MOTHERTONGUES | The Ma, in a manner of speaking, has school Irish and English (6,7) |
| INTERIM | The Ma'ori king in the little car reversed for a limited period (7) |
| MUSE | Ponder / (Greek myth) any of the nine goddesses who presided over literature, the arts and sciences |
| GIDE | French recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Literature; The Immoralist (1902) |
| COD | A carved one hangs in the chamber of the Massachusetts House of Representatives |
| ROSSITER | Who played the title role in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin as well as Rigsby in Rising Damp? (8) |
| PERRIN | Complete the name of this 70s sitcom: The Fall and Rise of Reginald ______. (6) |
| SURABAYA | Indonesia's second largest city, at the mouth of the Mas river (8) |
| NOAMCHOMSKY | American linguist, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer who joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955 |
| THEBOSTONIANS | Henry James novel, published in 1886, set in the Massachusetts capital from which the work takes its |
| CAMBRIDGE | 1629 agreement in which English stockholders of the Massachusetts Bay Company pledged to resettle in New England |
