| DEBRETT | John ___, London-born bookseller noted for his volumes of Peerage & Baronetage (7) |
| ROETHKE | Theodore -; recipient of the 1954 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his volume of verse The Waking (7) |
| LEQUEUX | William ___, London-born author of novels The House of Whispers and The Four Faces (2,5) |
| BURKE | John ___, Irish genealogist who first published his Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1826 |
| CHAPLIN | Ben ___, London-born actor who portrayed George Coulouris in 2008 film Me and Orson Welles (7) |
| STATHAM | Jason ___, London-born actor who stars as Frank Martin in the Transporter film series (7) |
| TRINDER | Tommy ___, London-born comedian who played the title role in 1944 film Champagne Charlie (7) |
| ALLSTON | US artist who painted The Poor Author and the Rich Bookseller, Florimell's Flight and Hermia and Helena (7) |
| DJALILI | Omid ___, London-born Iranian actor-comedian who starred as Mahmud Nasir in 2010 comedy-drama film The Infidel (7) |
| BORDERS | Big bookseller |
| DARWIN | Naturalist who lived at Down House from 1842 where he studied orchids and summarised his theories of natural selection in his volume On the Origin of Species (6) |
| HOMERAWAYFROMHOMER | A Simpson without access to his volume of the "Odyssey"? |
| DEBRETTS | Publisher of books on peerage and etiquette, each bearing a rose, thistle and shamrock colophon in gold (8) |
| BASHIR | Martin ___, London-born journalist noted for ITV documentary Living with Michael Jackson (6) |
| BRABAZON | Francis ___, London-born poet whose volumes include In Dust I Sing (8) |
| EUELL | Jason ___, London-born former Jamaica, Wimbledon and Charlton Athletic footballer (5) |
| EARLE | Augustus ___, London-born artist and traveller attached to HMS Beagle from 1831-82 (5) |
| LAMB | Charles _, London-born essayist and critic whose pen name was Elia (4) |
| BOOKSHELF | A ledge for a bibliophile's atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, floras, novels, peerages and other tomes (9) |
| PATERNOSTERROW | London street which, for over 300 years, was the home of publishers and booksellers |
