| MURDOCH | Iris -; author of The Sandcastle and The Sea, The Sea who was depicted by Judi Dench and Kate Winslet in a 2001 biopic (7) |
| WILDE | Oscar -; author of The Picture of Dorian Gray who was depicted by Stephen Fry in a 1997 biopic (5) |
| DAME | Title held by Judi Dench and Helen Mirren (4) |
| IRIS | First name of the author of The Sandcastle, An Unofficial Rose, The Unicorn and The Sea, the Sea (4) |
| DOORS | The ___; rock band whose lead singer Jim Morrison was depicted by Val Kilmer in an Oliver Stone film (5) |
| ALLINGHAM | Novelist whose character Albert Campion was depicted by Peter Davison in a television mystery drama series (9) |
| HEMINGWAY | Author of For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea who said: "Happiness in intelligent pe |
| JEAN | First name of the character played by Judi Dench in As Time Goes By (4) |
| ELIZABETHFRY | English prison reformer who was depicted on the Bank of England £5 note until 2016 (9,3) |
| RAN | The goddess of the sea, who fleetingly caught drowning persons in her net (3) |
| ASH | In Egyptian mythology, this benign god of the desert was depicted as a man with the head of a hawk |
| POSEIDON | Greek god of the sea who is Percy Jackson's dad |
| NEPTUNE | Roman god of the sea who presides at equator-crossing ceremonies |
| MRSBROWN | Film i n which Billy Connolly played a servant to Queen Victoria, played by Judi Dench (3,5) |
| ISIS | Egyptian goddess who was depicted with cow horns |
| ORIGO | Dame Iris ..... , author of War In Val d'Orcia (1947) |
| GWEN | Journalist Ifill who was depicted on a postage stamp in 2020 |
| GUERNICA | Town in Spain whose destruction 1937 by German bombers during the Spanish Civil War was depicted in one of Picasso's most famous paintings |
| DRIFT | The Battle of ___ ___ was depicted in the film Zulu. (6,5) |
| RORKES | The Battle of ___ ___ was depicted in the film Zulu. (6,5) |
