| CLARICE | ____ Cliff, ceramic artist and designer born in 1899 (7) |
| ERTE | Illustrator and designer born Romain de Tirtoff remembered for Harper's Bazaar cover art and Folies Bergere costumes (4) |
| POULENC | Francis, French composer born in 1899 who was a member of the group called Les Six (7) |
| SHADOWS | The ___, Cliff Richard's support band in the 1960s (7) |
| NABOKOV | Vladimir, U.S. writer born in St Petersburg in Russia in 1899 (7) |
| GRAYSON | Sir __, ceramic artist (7,5) |
| RENAULT | Old-established French motor company, founded in 1899 and nationalized in 1945 but still going strong (7) |
| NAIROBI | Capital of Kenya, founded in 1899; it became the capital in 1905 (7) |
| ASPIRIN | A painkiller usually taken in tablet form that was clinically introduced in 1899 (7) |
| ACMILAN | Usual English name for the football club founded by Englishmen Herbert Kilpin and Alfred Edwards in Italy in 1899 |
| TOLSTOY | Writer whose last novel Resurrection was published in 1899 (7) |
| BEECHAM | Emily _, actress who plays Maura Franklin in 1899 (7) |
| COLENSO | First major battle of the Boer War in 1899 (7) |
| BOERWAR | South African conflict begun in 1899 |
| LORDJIM | Joseph Conrad novel first published in 1899-1900 |
| ERNEST | ___ Hemingway, U.S. author born in 1899 noted for his love of bullfighting (6) |
| JORGELUISBORGES | Argentine short story writer born in 1899 who pioneered the magic realism literary genre (5,4,6) |
| CELILROTH | Historian born in 1899 who was the first editor of the 'Encyclopaedia Judaica' (5,4) |
| RADIATOR | Artist and designer without heat - the man discarded heater |
| BURNEJONES | Edward, Victorian artist and designer (5-5) |
