| BASILBRUSH | 'Boom, boom' BBC fox-puppet with a gap-toothed grin |
| MAD | Magazine with a gap-toothed mascot |
| ANDYPANDY | TV puppet with a blue-and-white suit who debuted in 1950 (4,5) |
| PINOCCHIO | Puppet with a noteworthy nose |
| SONGS | "Boom Boom Pow" and "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!" |
| ALFREDENEUMAN | Gap-toothed utterer of 17-A |
| SATURN | Planet with a gap region between its rings known as the Cassini Division (6) |
| HIATUS | I shut it with a gap! (6) |
| SPLIT | Bowling pin formation with a gap |
| SARCOPHAGAL | Scholar startled with a gap regarding Egyptian tombs? |
| ERNEST | ____ Borgnine, U.S. actor born in 1917 noted for his gap-toothed Cheshire Cat grin (6) |
| OCONNOR | Supreme Court justice who appeared in the 1987 documentary "Gap Toothed Women" |
| EDWARD | Regnal name of eight English kings since the Norman Conquest, first borne by "Longshanks", with a gap of some 300 years before the last two (6) |
| BRUSH | Fox puppet who has appeared on TV since the 1960s, Basil _ (5) |
| PAWN | Puppet with hand on nose initially (4) |
| LION | Lenny the _, puppet with ventriloquist Terry Hall (4) |
| ESSOBLUE | Paraffin oil advertised on TV from the 1950s to the 1970s by the slogan "Boom, boom, boom, boom ____" |
| BASILBRUCH | Glove puppet whose catchphrase is 'Boom boom' (5,5) |
| TERRYTHOMAS | Gap-toothed British actor |
| BASIL | _ Brush, TV fox puppet (5) |
