| LEBOWSKI | About the adventures of The Dude, The Big - (8) |
| BIG | 1998 film starring Jeff Bridges as The Dude, The --- Lebowski (3) |
| CHRISTIE | Agatha ___; author whose works include Hercule Poirot's Christmas, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and the play The Mousetrap (8) |
| SPECKLED | The Adventure of the ___ Band, Sherlock Holmes story (8) |
| SMOLLETT | Surgeon who set up a medical practice in Downing Street before writing novels about the adventures of characters including Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle (8) |
| TREK | About the adventures of the USS Enterprise (Star ----) |
| RED | 1988 British sci-fi comedy series about the adventures of the last human alive stranded on a mining spaceship: 2 wds. |
| MANDRAKE | The Australian Women's Weekly always included the comic strip adventures of ... the Magician |
| KIRRIN | Inspired by Corfe's hilltop ruin in the Isle of Purbeck, a Blytonian island that is the setting of many of the adventures of the Famous Five (6) |
| ARRESTED | Adventures of the Bluth family (-------- Development) |
| TWAIN | Mark -, pen name of the author of The Prince and the Pauper who also wrote about the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer (5) |
| MANIFOLD | In various ways, when it comes to origami I'm the dude! (8) |
| AGATHA | Forename of the "Queen of Crime" who wrote the story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and the novel Hercule Poirot's Christmas (6) |
| RANSOME | Author noted for his tales following the adventures of the young crew of the Swallow dinghy and their rivals in the boat named Amazon (7) |
| BLYTON | Writer of children's books and the creator of Noddy, the adventures of the Famous Five Secret Seven, etc (4,6) |
| ENYD | Writer of children's books and the creator of Noddy, the adventures of the Famous Five Secret Seven, etc (4,6) |
| GRAHAME | Novelist who wrote about the adventures of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Mr Toad in the classic family favourite The Wind in the Willows (7) |
| TREASUREISLAND | What is the title of RL Stevenson's story about the adventures of Jim Hawkins? (8,6) |
| CRIME | Queen of -; nickname of Agatha Christie, author of Hercule Poirot's Christmas and The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (5) |
| BUSTS | The Napoleons in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" |
