| ABNER | -----Brown, the villain in John Masefield's children's novel The Box of Delights (5) |
| OPHIR | Biblical port, famous for its wealth, mentioned in John Masefield's poem Cargoes (5) |
| KAYHARKER | Hero of children's books The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights by John Masefield |
| MASEFIELD | Poet Laureate, from 1930-67, who wrote Salt-Water Ballads and children's novels including The Box of Delights and The Midnight Folk (9) |
| IMUST | John Masefield's Sea Fever began, '... go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky' (1,4 |
| AIKEN | Author of the 1962 children's novel The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase, Joan _ (5) |
| TROVE | Attempted to get lid off box of delights? |
| ANITA | Ms. Desai, author of children's novel The Village by the Sea (5) |
| SMITH | Dick King--; author whose children's novel The Sheep-Pig was adapted into the film Babe (5) |
| AGNES | First name of Mrs Brown, the character played by Brendan O'Carroll (5) |
| LEROY | "And it's bad, bad _ Brown, the baddest man in the whole damned town" |
| KHAKI | A dull yellowish-brown, the colour of military uniforms (5) |
| AURIC | First name of the villain in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger(5) |
| OCHRE | Ranging in colour from yellow and orange to red and brown, the earliest known pigment used by humans (5) |
| BEIGE | Brown, the flier circling the flight centre (5) |
| LORRE | Player of the villain in The Man Who Knew Too Much |
| AARON | Burr who's the villain in the musical "Hamilton" |
| OTOES | Eagle of Delight's tribe |
| TOAST | Brown the bread |
| FEVER | Masefield's desire for the sea - Yellow, for example |
