| PANIC | "war of the worlds" effect |
| REDSHIFT | Out-of-this-world effect as snooker player breaks off, potting first of five (3,5) |
| WELLS | One of the UK's smallest cities; or, the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds (5) |
| WAYNE | Jeff ---, composer of the TV-am theme tune as well as a musical version of The War Of The Worlds (5) |
| ORSON | First name of the actor and director remembered for Citizen Kane and his radio dramatisation of The War of the Worlds (5) |
| TRIPOD | Alternative name for the 'monstrous' type of fighting- machine used by the Martians in H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (1898) |
| HGWELLS | English novelist who wrote some of the earliest science fiction novels, such as The War of the Worlds. (1,1,5) |
| FOREVERAUTUMN | Song, based on a melody that was written as a jingle for a Lego commercial, sung by Justin Hayward on the album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds |
| FEAR | Emotion evoked by the radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" |
| MARS | Home of the invaders in "The War of the Worlds" |
| ORSONWELLES | He terrified north-east America with his radio broadcast of the Martian invasion sci-fi novel, The War Of The Worlds (5,6) |
| WELLES | "The War of the Worlds" narrator of 1938 |
| SCIFI | Genre of "World War Z" and "War of the Worlds," briefly |
| STEVENSPIELBERG | Director of the 2005 movie, War of the Worlds (6,9) |
| RADIOPLAY | *CBS's broadcast of 'The War of the Worlds,' e.g. |
| OTTO | War of the Worlds and Flight of the Phoenix's Miranda ... (4) |
| GENEBARRY | Actor who starred as Dr Clayton Forrester in the 1953 film The War of the Worlds |
| HERBERT | First name of The War of the Worlds novelist Wells (7) |
| INVADE | What the aliens do in "The War of the Worlds" |
| RICHARDBURTON | Actor who narrated Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds (7,6) |
