| ANXIOUSPEOPLE | 2020 best-selling novel about a group held hostage by a bank robber: 2 wds. |
| SKIMASK | Stereotypical face covering for a bank robber: 2 wds. |
| AMANCALLEDOVE | 2014 best-selling novel about a neighborhood curmudgeon who befriends the family next door: 4 wds. |
| SKIMASKS | Head coverings worn by some winter athletes and bank robbers: 2 wds. |
| BALACLAVA | Headgear often preferred by a bank robber or SAS team member |
| RAIDER | Cyclist shot by a bank robber? (6) |
| THEWITCHES | Roald Dahl novel about a group which plans to turn all children into mice (3,7) |
| WATERSHIP | - Down, much-loved novel about a group of rabbits (9) |
| ONTHE | 2015 best-selling novel about Rachel, an alcoholic whose daily commute passes her former home (2,3) |
| TRAIN | 2015 best-selling novel about Rachel, an alcoholic whose daily commute passes her former home (3,4,2,3,5) |
| THEGIRL | 2015 best-selling novel about Rachel, an alcoholic whose daily commute passes her former home (3,4,2,3,5) |
| EYELESSINGAZA | Aldous Huxley's best-selling novel about the socialite Anthony Beavis |
| ATTIC | 1987 film about children held hostage by their family, Flowers in the - (5) |
| BLAKEMAN | Lad held hostage by Harvey Gaskell's drug thugs in Corrie (3,8) |
| SAM | Lad held hostage by Harvey Gaskell's drug thugs in Corrie (3,8) |
| DOGMA | Kevin Smith movie that is being "held hostage" by Harvey Weinstein |
| PRISONER | Captive boy held hostage by intruder (8) |
| EVENTER | Sportsperson held hostage by eleven terrorists |
| WOMANISE | Country held hostage by learned cheat (8) |
| NINJA | Jack held hostage by girl assassin |
