| Kingsley Amis novel |
LUCKYJIM |
| Medieval siege engine |
TREBUCHET |
| Name shared by Beethoven, Wittgenstein |
LUDWIG |
| Pacific island, Gauguin's home in the 1890s |
TAHITI |
| Persistently annoy |
PESTER |
| Produce for show (repeatedly) |
TROTOUT |
| Rate of movement |
SPEED |
| Release; without cost |
FREE |
| Seeming rather tearful |
DEWYEYED |
| Soft mineral powder |
TALC |
| Swindle (colloq.); bird |
ROOK |
| The Day of the - (Forsyth) |
JACKAL |
| Town NW of Swansea |
LLANELLI |