| THEPICTUREOFDORIANGRAY | 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde featuring the character Basil Hallward |
| THEPICTURE | 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde featuring the character Basil Hallward (3,7,2,6,4) |
| OFDORIANGRAY | 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde featuring the character Basil Hallward (3,7,2,6,4) |
| ANIDEALHUSBAND | 1895 play by Oscar Wilde featuring the character Sir Robert Chiltern, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs |
| THEBOSTONIANS | Novel by Henry James featuring the characters Basil Ransom, Olive Chancellor and Verena Tarrant |
| DORIAN | Gray painted by Basil Hallward |
| CLEESE | Which British comedian played the popular television character Basil Fawlty? (6) |
| GRAY | The Picture of Dorian ___ 1980 gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde |
| DORIANGRAY | 'The Picture of ---', novel by Oscar Wilde (6,4) |
| SIGNOFFOUR | The ___, 1890 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes (4,2,4) |
| LABORATORY | The -, 1890 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes (4,2,4) |
| TALE | The ___, 1890 novel by George Meredith subtitled An Episode in the History of Beau Beamish (4,2,5) |
| TRAGICMUSE | The ___, 1890 novel by Henry James (6,4) |
| HUNGER | 1890 novel by Knut Hamsun about a destitute writer (6) |
| AMAN | 1890 novel by Anthony Hope (1,3,2,4) |
| OFMARK | 1890 novel by Anthony Hope (1,3,2,4) |
| MAMBO | ?The ___ Kings Play Songs of Love", Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Oscar Hijuelos (5) |
| IMPORTANCE | The - of Being Earnest; play by Oscar Wilde that was adapted into a film by Anthony Asquith in 1952 (10) |
| PADUA | Immortalised in The Taming of the Shrew and a play by Oscar Wilde, city in Veneto where Livy was born and Galileo taught at its university (5) |
| CONNEMARA | Coastal region of western Galway dominated by the Twelve Bens (or Pins) mountains; described by Oscar Wilde 'a savage beauty' (9) |
