| THEGOLDFINCH | 2019 film based on a 2013 best-selling novel by Donna Tartt: 2 wds. |
| BADMONKEY | 2024 TV series starring Vince Vaughn, based on a 2013 novel by Carl Hiaasen (3,6) |
| MRS | "The Rebellious Life of ___ Rosa Parks" (2022 documentary based on a 2013 book) |
| IAM | "___ Malala" (2013 best-selling autobiography) |
| MALALA | "I Am ___" (2013 best-selling autobiography) |
| DELICIOUSAPPLES | Yellow fruit featured on a 2013 series of stamps |
| GOLDFINCH | Depicted in a painting by Carel Fabritius that inspired a novel by Donna Tartt, a colourful garden bird known collectively as a charm (9) |
| LITTLEFRIEND | The ?, 2002 novel by Donna Tartt (6,6) |
| DOWNTONABBEY | 2019 film based on a British TV series in which Maggie Smith played a sharp-tongued matriarch: 2 wds. |
| THEGOBLET | Film based on the best-selling novel by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and ___ of Fire (3,6) |
| PLAINSONG | A best-selling novel by the US writer Kurt Haruf (9) |
| LITTLE | 2019 film based on a book, - Women (6) |
| CATS | 2019 film based on an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical (4) |
| BEES | The Secret Life of -; best-selling novel by Sue Monk Kidd (4) |
| EASTLYNNE | Victorian best-selling novel by Ellen Wood, writing as Mrs Henry Wood (4,5) |
| PIKACHU | Detective ___ (2019 film based on the Pokemon franchise) |
| THEGOLFINCH | Donna Tartt novel about a short putt? |
| BYITS | 2014 novel by Donna Leon (2,3,5) |
| AMANINFULL | Best-selling novel by Tom Wolfe, published in 1998 |
| COMA | 1977 best-selling novel by physician/author Robin Cook |
