| NICCAGE | "Pig" and "Renfield" actor, to friends |
| NICHOLAS | _ Hoult, actor whose films include About a Boy and Renfield (8) |
| NICOLAS | - - - Cage, actor who starred in Renfield and Arcadian, pictured left (7) |
| NICOLASCAGE | National Treasure actor who plays Count Dracula in Renfield: 2 wds. |
| BENSCHWARTZ | The Afterparty actor who plays a mobster in the new comedy horror movie Renfield: 2 wds. |
| NICHOLASHOULT | Dark Phoenix actor who plays the title role Dracula's henchman in Renfield: 2 wds. |
| NICHOLASCAGE | National Treasure actor who plays Count Dracula in Renfield: 2 wds. |
| PAVILION | Theatre on Glasgow's Renfield Street (8) |
| NIC | Cage of 2023's "Renfield" |
| THEAPOLLO | Glasgow theatre (1973-87) once located in Renfield Street (3,6) |
| ROSIE | Paired with "lee", rhyming slang for a cup of tea one may take with "give and take" cake, "pig and roast" toast or "satin and silk" milk (5) |
| HOGWASH | Used to be protected by pig and horse? Nonsense |
| SHADOW | Had to get in pig and dog (6) |
| GOTHEWHOLEHOG | He's got to overcome complete pig and never be discouraged (2,3,5,3) |
| BOAR | The male of the pig, badger, hedgehog, guinea pig and mink (4) |
| AGOUTI | Brazil-nut-eating large rodent of South America, related to the chinchilla, guinea pig and paca (6) |
| MELBLANC | Actor who provided the voices of Porky Pig and Daffy Duck |
| SADDLEBACK | Breed of black and white pig and another name for Blencathra (10) |
| CHARLOTTE | Mother to 15 children who was a six-decade Georgian queen; an appley bread pudding, baked or cooked with steam; or, E B White's spider, whose woven messages "humble", "some pig" and "terrific" offer W |
| MISNOMERS | Guinea pig (neither Guinean nor a pig) and mantis shrimp (neither a mantis nor a shrimp), for two |
