| TWOTOWERS | 'The --- ---', second part of JRR Tolkien's trilogy The Lord Of The Rings (3,6) |
| MIDDLEEARTH | Setting of JRR Tolkien's me Lord of the Rings (6,5) |
| THALAIVAS | The second part of the name of the PKL team led by Ajay Thakur (9) |
| RETURN | Final part of Peter Jackson's trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The ------ of the King (6) |
| GOLFCLUBS | Things in the bag, or what the second parts of the starred entries might represent |
| PURGATORY | English title for the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy (9) |
| LOOSEENDS | Fraying result, and what the second parts of the starred answers can be |
| THETWOTOWERS | 1954 volume; second part of J R R Tolkien trilogy The Lord of the Rings |
| FIRSTBASE | Where the second parts of spacewalk, lead single, and human error might get you |
| MANTICORE | Second novel (published in 1972) in Canadian author Robertson Davies' series The Deptford Trilogy, The ___ |
| AESCHYLUS | Greek dramatist best known for the trilogy the Oresteia (9) |
| BAGGINS | JRR Tolkien's hobbit family, Bilbo was the hero of The Hobbit and his nephew Frodo appeared in The Lord Of The Rings trilogy |
| RINGS | Tolkien trilogy: The Lord of the - |
| RISINGSEALEVELS | Result of polar ice melt graphically shown by the second part of six two-part puzzle answers |
| EVENT | Incident involving the first woman and the second part of the Bible (5) |
| SNAPPER | 'The ---', novel which forms the second part of Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy (7) |
| STING | Sword belonging to Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (5) |
| ENT | Tree-like creature in JRR Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings (3) |
| MORDOR | Land ruled by Sauron in JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (6) |
| GOLLUM | Slimy creature in JRR Tolkien's work The Lord Of The Rings (6) |
