| EWART | Middle name of the Victorian PM William Gladstone (5) |
| ELIOT | Pen name of the Victorian author who wrote The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda (5) |
| MADGE | Dame -- Kendal, English actress of the Victorian and Edwardian eras (5) |
| GALOP | Lively dance of the Victorian era |
| CONAN | One of the middle names of the author whose character Sherlock Holmes lives at 221b Baker Street (5) |
| WALDO | Middle name of "The Sage of Concord" |
| NEALE | Middle name of the author of "Their Eyes Were Watching God" |
| JUDAS | Middle name of the Red Dwarf character Arnold Rimmer, played by Chris Barrie (5) |
| SCOTT | Middle name of the novelist C S Forester |
| ABRAM | Middle name of the 20th U.S. president |
| NANCE | Middle name of the longest-lived vice president |
| SEUSS | Middle name of the "Green Eggs and Ham" author Theodor Geisel |
| CECIL | Literary critic and Oxford don who was a grandson of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, the Victorian statesman who served as prime minister three times (5) |
| YARRAJUNCTION | In which town did the 36-inch gauge of the Powelltown timber tramway meet the standard gauge of the Victorian Railway? (5,8) |
| READE | Composer who wrote the theme to The Victorian Kitchen Garden and, with Tim Gibson, Antiques Roadshow (5) |
| CODED | Forming part of a telegraph system nicknamed the "Victorian Internet", code in which messages are spelled out in dots and dashes, or, dits and dahs (5) |
| TENNYSON | October 12, 1892, the day of this poet laureate's funeral, was a national day of mourning in England, because he was considered the leading poet of the Victorian era. |
| EVICT | Expel from the Victorian residence (5) |
| LEEDS | With the Victorian Corn Exchange at its centre, West Yorkshire city where company Waddingtons was founded (5) |
| ANKLE | Joint covered in the Victorian era |
