| HARLEMSHAKE | 2013 trap hit by Baauer, which inspired a YouTube meme |
| HARLEM | ___ Shake (2012 novelty song by Baauer) |
| RAT | Pizza __ (critter in a YouTube meme) |
| RAKESPROGRESS | A --- ---, series of eight paintings by William Hogarth which inspired a 1951 opera by Igor Stravinsky (5,8) |
| ESSAIS | Classic French work by Montaigne (which inspired a literary form) |
| THEBIRDS | Novelette by Daphne du Maurier which inspired a 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film starring Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren (3,5) |
| LES | - Miserables, Victor Hugo novel which inspired a stage and screen musical (3) |
| IROBOT | 1950 Isaac Asimov short-story collection, which inspired a 2004 movie |
| MARTHA | She is Paul McCartney's Old English Sheepdog, which inspired a Beatles' song on their White Album. The name of the song is "___ My Dear." |
| FARGO | 1996 Coen Brothers film which inspired a long-running TV series of the same name. (5) |
| MONA | _ the Vampire, 1990 children's book which inspired a TV series of the same name (4) |
| CORSAIR | The ___, verse tale by Lord Byron which inspired an opera by Verdi and a ballet by Adam (7) |
| DARKLYDREAMING | ___ Dexter book by Jeff Lindsay which inspired the TV series Dexter: 2 wds. |
| FINGALSCAVE | Staffa site which inspired an overture by Mendelssohn |
| DAN | _____ The Man , a mobile game inspired by a Youtube web series of the same name |
| REPLAY | Option represented by a circular arrow at the end of a YouTube video |
| ROOM | The -, a famously bad movie from 2003 which inspired 2017's The Disaster Artist (4) |
| PYGMALION | Named after a mythological Greek sculptor who fell in love with his statue, George Bernard Shaw's play which inspired My Fair Lady (9) |
| THUNDERBIRDS | TV show which inspired Blue Peter to create a papier-mâché model of Tracy Island in 1993 |
| PASODOBLES | Fast Spanish marches which inspired ballroom dances |
