| LEHRER | Tom __, US mathematician and satirist whose songs include The Vatican Rag (6) |
| SHANNON | Claude ---, US mathematician and engineer who pioneered information theory |
| TOMLEHER | "The Vatican Rag" songwriter |
| HORACE | Roman poet and satirist whose works include the Ars Poetica (6) |
| TOMLEHRER | US satirist whose songs include The Masochism Tango (3,6) |
| CLANCY | Tom _; US novelist (6) |
| COTTON | Tom ___: US senator for Arkansas (6) |
| CARLYLE | Born in Ecclefechan in 1795, the historian, philosopher and satirist whose major works include Sartor Resartus and The French Revolution: A History (7) |
| MARVELL | Andrew ___, 17th century poet and satirist whose works include The Mower's Song and Last Instructions to a Painter (7) |
| BIERCE | Ambrose ?, US poet and satirist who disappeared in Mexico in 1913 (6) |
| OBRIEN | Pen name of the Irish novelist and satirist Brian O'Nolan (5,6) (see 14D) |
| WILLIE | British cartoonist and satirist who co-founded the magazine Private Eye, Rushton (6) |
| ERICHKASTNER | German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist whose best-known children's book is Emil and the Detectives |
| IRONMAIDEN | English heavy metal band whose songs include 'The Trooper' and 'Run for the Hills' (4,6) |
| MARCUS | Comedian and satirist, _ Brigstocke (6) |
| SAFRAN | Australian radio personality and satirist John - (6) |
| JEROMEKERN | U.S. composer of musical comedy whose songs include The Song Is You and Ol' Man River (6,4) |
| SAHL | Mort, American comedian and satirist whose autobiography was called Heartland (4) |
| STEVEMILLERBAND | Rock group formed in 1966 whose songs include The Joker (5,6,4) |
| LEAR | Edward, 19th Century English humorist whose nonsense songs include The Jumblies and Calico Pie (4) |
