| WHERETHEWILDTHINGS | 2009 fantasy film based on a best-selling book |
| HOWSTELLAGOT | With 32-Across 1998 Angela Bassett film based on a best-selling book: 3 wds. |
| OCEAN | Film based on a best-selling novel, The Deep End of the _ (5) |
| NEEDFOR | Aaron Paul action film based on a best-selling video game, ...Speed (4,3) |
| EATPRAY | Julia Roberts romance based on a best-selling memoir, ___ Love |
| OFMADISON | Romantic drama based on a best-selling novel, The Bridges...County (2,7) |
| BEETON | Mrs -; Victorian author who wrote a best-selling book on household management and cookery containing some 2,000 recipes by the age of 23 (6) |
| EDEN | Plot in a best-selling book? |
| EDMONDS | A best-selling book in NZ (7) |
| NOVEL | Many a best-selling book |
| MRSBEETON | English journalist and editor, born 1836, who wrote a best-selling Book of Household Management (3,6) |
| ERAGON | A 2006 Jeremy Irons fantasy film based on a book by Christopher Paolini (6) |
| TRAIN | How to ___ Your Dragon, 2025 fantasy film based on a book series by Cressida Cowell (5) |
| JEMANDTHEHOOLIGANS | October 2015 fantasy film based on a line of toys |
| PRINCESS | The _ Bride, 1987 fantasy film based on a William Goldman novel (8) |
| TOWER | Fantasy film based on a Stephen King novel, The Dark ___ |
| STARDUST | Fantasy film based on a Neil Gaiman novel, starring Claire Danes (2007) |
| BEOWULF | 2007 animated fantasy film based on an epic poem (7) |
| IMMORTALS | 2011 fantasy film based on Greek myth, starring Henry Cavill as Theseus (9) |
| ARE | "Where the Wild Things ___"; 2009 fantasy film |