| STANDARDBEARER | Leading figure, and regular supporter (8-6) |
| GEORGEPLIMPTON | Longtime New York literary figure and this puzzle's honoree |
| GILBERTHARDING | “The rudest man in Britain”, a journalist and regular 1950s Twenty Questions and What’s My Line panellist |
| KANGAROOVALLEY | 8-down pulped okra and regular grain, plus caviar, to return shout? (8,6) |
| GRAPHS | Statisticians' artworks in the form of charts, curves, diagrams, pies and plots that are more than mere lines and squiggles, but symbolic keys revealing data's hidden figures and meanings (6) |
| NOBODY | Number, figure and cipher (6) |
| SONTAG | American literary figure and political activist, d. 2004 - tangos (anag) (6) |
| JUNGLE | Noted Swiss figure and the French in wilderness (6) |
| ELAZAR | Biblical figure and community in Gush Etzion (6) |
| ATTENDTO | Deal with a tense figure and daughter also, we hear (6,2) |
| BULLETIN | Short and regular up-date (8) |
| HUWEDWARDS | Welsh BBC newsreader and regular linkman for election and royal broadcasts |
| PEGGED | Secured horse between exercise and regular feeds (6) |
| STEADY | Firm and regular date (6) |
| ANGELA | ___ Barnes, comedian and regular on Mock the Week (6) |
| EVENLY | In a level and regular way (6) |
| RAVAGE | Sack Republican and "regular Joe" voter ultimately leaving (6) |
| SANDWICHBOARD | Advertiser offering snack and regular meals? (8,5) |
| TROPICAL | Hot issue about "right and regular" jails (8) |
| SMOOTH | Having an even and regular surface (6) |
