| BAUM | "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" writer |
| LAHR | Bert who played the Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz" |
| TIN | Woodman's makeup in "The Wizard of Oz" |
| EAST | One wicked witch's home in "The Wizard of Oz" |
| SCARECROW | Effigy of a human used to deter birds; or, the character in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in search of a brain (9) |
| GINGHAM | From Dorothy Gale's dress in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Katharine Hepburn's in The Philadelphia Story to bistro tablecloths and jam jar covers, textile called vichy in France (7) |
| GLINDA | 'Good Witch of the South' in the 1900 L. Frank Baum novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (6) |
| OMAHA | Where the Wizard is actually from, in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" |
| SEE | "We're off to ___ the wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz..." |
| TOSEE | "We're off ___ the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz...." |
| LFRANKBAUM | Author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels (1,4) |
| TOMI | "Children of Blood and Bone" writer Adeyemi |
| LYMAN | The 'L' of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum's name |
| HOMEAGAIN | At what is Dorothy glad to be, according to the 9 4 of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz? (4,5) |
| WIZ | 'The 1978 film interpretation of The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz starring Diana Ross (3) |
| WAS | 1992 Geoff Ryman novel exploring the themes of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum (3) |
| DOROTHY | Main character in the children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (7) |
| GALE | Heroine of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) |
| NOVELCOWARD | The lion from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," e.g.? |
| POE | "The Tell-Tale Heart" writer |