| THEEAGLEHASLANDED | 1975 novel by Jack Higgins adapted into a film by John Sturges in 1976 |
| ICESTATIONZEBRA | 1963 novel by Alistair MacLean filmed by John Sturges in 1968 |
| OFLAHERTY | Irish author whose novel The Informer was adapted into a film by John Ford (1'8) |
| CHRISTINE | 1983 Stephen King horror novel adapted as a film by John Carpenter the same year (9) |
| LANDED | 1975 novel by Jack Higgins set in World War II (6) |
| THEEAGLEHAS | 1975 novel by Jack Higgins set in World War II (3,5,3) |
| THEGREATESCAPE | 1963 war film, directed by John Sturges, based on a 1950 memoir by Australian writer Paul Brickhill (3,5,6) |
| VIEW | A Room with a -; novel by E. M. Forster adapted into a film by James Ivory (4) |
| ESCAPE | 1963 epic war film directed by John Sturges, fire Great _ (6) |
| PORTRAIT | The - of a Lady; novel by Henry James, adapted into a film by Jane Campion (8) |
| MCQ | 1974 film directed by John Sturges |
| MAROONED | 1969 John Sturges film starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna and Gene Hackman, based on a novel by Martin Caidin |
| WARHORSE | Children's novel by Michael Morpurgo that was adapted into a film by Steven Spielberg (3,5) |
| HAIRSPRAY | 1988 film by John Waters adapted into a musical in 2002 |
| IMPORTANCE | The - of Being Earnest; play by Oscar Wilde that was adapted into a film by Anthony Asquith in 1952 (10) |
| ARSENIC | Featuring in the title of a play adapted into a film by Frank Capra, the element with germanium to its left and selenium to its right on the periodic table (7) |
| FOWLES | Author whose novel The French Lieutenant's Woman was adapted into a film by Harold Pinter in 1981 (6) |
| JOHNBUCHAN | Whose novel The Thirty-Nine Steps was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935? (4,6) |
| THEMAGNIFICENTSEVEN | 1960 John Sturges Western based on a 1954 Akira Kurosawa film |
| WARNING | 1976 thriller novel by Jack Higgins set during the Second World War (5,7) |
