| AUTUMN | 1931 play by Dodie Smith (6,6) |
| CROCUS | 1931 play by Dodie Smith (6,6) |
| MOURNING | "___ Becomes Electra" -1931 play by Eugene O'Niell (8) |
| CAVALCADE | 1931 play by Noel Coward (9) |
| AUTUMNCROCUS | and 17ac, 1931 stage play by Dodie Smith |
| DEAROCTOPUS | 1938 stage play by Dodie Smith (4,7) |
| DALMATIANS | Type of dogs kidnapped by Cruella de Vil in a book by Dodie Smith (10) |
| ICAPTURETHECASTLE | Novel by Dodie Smith (1,7,3,6) |
| DOGS | Animals described in novels by Dodie Smith (4) |
| CRUEL | Fur-obsessed vil___in created by Dodie Smith |
| CRUELLA | ____ De Vil, villain in the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith (7) |
| DALMATIAN | Any one of the 101 spotted dogs in a book by Dodie Smith (9) |
| CAPTURE | 2003 British film based on the 1948 novel by Dodie Smith, I - the Castle (7) |
| PERDITA | One of the adult dalmatians in a book by Dodie Smith and a subsequent film (7) |
| CRUELLADEVIL | Villainous heiress in Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (7,2,3) |
| DEVIL | Cruella --; character in Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians, portrayed by Glenn |
| STARLIGHT | The ___ Barking, Dodie Smith novel (9) |
| CASTLE | I Capture the ___, Dodie Smith novel (6) |
| 101 | Dodie Smith's Dalmatians |
| OKLAHOMA | First musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein (1943), based on 1931 play Green Grow the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs (8) |
