| BFG | 2016 film based on a Roald Dahl novel, with "The" |
| MATILDA | _ the Musical, 2022 film based on a Roald Dahl novel (7) |
| FANTASTICMRFOX | 2009 Clooney/Streep film based on a Roald Dahl book |
| THEBFG | Roald Dahl novel adapted as a 2016 Disney film |
| ELEVATOR | A lift, such as the "great glass" example in a Roald Dahl book; a hoist for grain; or, anything that raises (8) |
| DANNY | In a Roald Dahl book, who is the "Champion of the World"? (5) |
| FOX | Fantastic Mr ___ 1970 Roald Dahl novel that was adapted into a 2009 Wes Anderson film |
| VERMICIOUSKNIDS | Shape-shifting alien antagonists of the 1972 Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (10,5) |
| KRANKY | George's surname in the 1981 Roald Dahl novel George's Marvellous Medicine (6) |
| SOMETIME | & 2D 1948 Roald Dahl novel subtitled A Fable for Supermen (8,5) |
| ESIO | _ Trot; Roald Dahl's novel for children about a tortoise (4) |
| OOMPA | Half of a Roald Dahl creature |
| MRFOX | "Fantastic" character in a Roald Dahl book |
| SALT | Veruca -, winner of one of five Golden Tickets in 1964 Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (4) |
| THEWITCHES | Roald Dahl novel about a group which plans to turn all children into mice (3,7) |
| MEDICINE | George's Marvellous _; Roald Dahl novel (8) |
| TROT | Esio - - -, Roald Dahl novel |
| ESIOTROT | Roald Dahl novel |
| ZINGMATILDA | Pan a Dahl novel without Disney? |
| TWOCITIES | The Charles Dickens novel with the opening line, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; A Tale Of ... (3,6) |
