| GONEWITHTHEWIND | 1939 film - based on 18 Down's novel - which was trailed as "the most magnificent picture ever!" (4,4,3,4) (4,4,3,4) |
| BEST | The most magnificent defeat |
| DIARYOFAMADMAN | Film billed as "the most terrifying motion picture ever created", 1936 |
| WIZARDOFOZ | Title character in a 1939 film, based on a children's novel by L Frank Baum (6,2,2) |
| GOODBYEMRCHIPS | 1939 film, based on a 1934 novella by James Hilton, for which Robert Donat won a Best Actor Oscar (8,2,5) |
| SEUSSICAL | Broadway show based on 18 books |
| PERSUASION | 2022 Netflix movie based on 18-Across's last completed novel |
| NINETEENEIGHTYFOUR | George Orwell novel which was mostly written on the isle of Jura (8,6-4) |
| MOBYDICK | Classic novel which was a failure when published in 1851 and out of print when the author died in 1891 (4,4) |
| ELECTRIC | Do Androids Dream of ___ Sheep: Philip K Dick novel which was made into the 1982 film Blade Runner (8) |
| CANCER | Henry Miller's semi-autobiographical novel which was banned in the US until the 60s, Tropic Of ... |
| TROPIC | Henry Miller's semi-autobiographical novel which was banned in the US until the 60s, ... Of Cancer |
| CAPRICORN | Henry Miller's semi-autobiographical novel which was banned in the US until the 60s, Tropic Of ... |
| THORN | Colleen McCullough's novel which was made into an award-winning miniseries, The ... Birds (5) |
| LEGEND | I Am _, 1954 Richard Matheson novel which was adapted into a 2007 film starring Will Smith (6) |
| LADY | ___ Susan Jane Austen's short epistolary novel which was published in 1871 and features characters like Charles and Catherine Vernon: 2 wds. |
| IVANHOE | Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novel which was published in three volumes in 1819 (7) |
| TOTREAD | E M Foster novel which was made into a movie starring Judy Davis, Where Angels Fear ... (2,5) |
| LONGROOM | Famous sight at Lord's,the .... .... , described once as "the most evocative four walls in world cricket." (4,4) |
| ENZO | Famous Italian car boss who once described the E-Type as the most beautiful car in the world (4.7) |
