Possible Clues:

• Proverb
• Person or thing spoken of as notable example
• Person spoken of as a notable example
• Person or thing cited as a memorable example
• Notable or proverbial example
• Proverbially verbal
• One pointed at as exemplar
• Book, I say, not initially the egregious example
• Thing spoken of as notable example
• Proverbial in the way of being 9 across