| COLONELBLIMP | Cartoon character created by David Low in the 1930s (7,5) |
| COLONEL | Cartoon character created by David Low in the 1930s (7,5) |
| BLIMP | Cartoon character created by David Low in the 1930s (7,5) |
| ABSOLUTEZERO | Theoretically, the lowest of the low in the terribly cold state (8,4) |
| HOMERSIMPSON | Husband of Marge, cartoon character created by Matt Groening (5,7) |
| MRBENN | Character created by David McKee for several children's books and an animated TV series on the BBC |
| ZIGGYSTARDUST | Character created by David Bowie (5,8) |
| ROLLO | 1980 animated series about a character created by David McKee |
| KING | 1980 animated series about a character created by David McKee |
| GOOFY | Animated cartoon character created by the Walt Disney studio in the 1930s (5) |
| TIDE | The high and the low, in the main (4) |
| POPEYE | Cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar in the comic strip Thimble Theatre in January 1929 |
| OSWALD | _ the Lucky Rabbit, cartoon character created by Walt Disney in 1927 (6) |
| POUFFE | Lying low in the drawing room, the original detective writer embraces paramilitary group (6) |
| SMOOTH | Soft at the edges, low in the middle, hard and flat (6) |
| BALTIMORE | US city in which 'The Wire', created by David Simon, is set (9) |
| YOGIBEAR | Cartoon character created by Hanna-Barbera, which lived in Jellystone Park (4,4) |
| BETTY | Cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, who first appeared in 1930, _ Boop (5) |
| OLIVE | _ Oyl, cartoon character created by E. C. Segar in 1919 (5) |
| MAN | The Common ___, a cartoon character created by Indian cartoonist R. K. Laxman |
