| HEARTATTACK | Actor Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) suffered this (5,6) |
| CHEWBACCA | Star Wars character originally portrayed by Peter Mayhew |
| PETERMAYHEW | Portrayer of Chewbacca in the Star Wars films |
| ODDLEPODDLE | Language spoken by TV's Flower Pot Men (1952-3) invented by voice actor Peter Hawkins (5,6) |
| APNOEA | Nap disturbed - one has regularly suffered this? |
| STROKE | Stephanie Forrester suffered this |
| ASTHMA | Stevie in the 2000s sitcom Malcolm In The Middle suffered this breathing condition (6) |
| WORLDWAR | The globe suffered this all-out conflict twice last century (5,3) |
| DANIEL | _ Brocklebank, actor who plays Weatherfield vicar Billy Mayhew (6) |
| WOODALL | Leo, actor who played Dexter Mayhew in 2024 TV series One Day (7) |
| KEL | ___ Hinchley, Coronation Street child abuser threatened by vicar Billy Mayhew (3) |
| VICAR | Job title of Weatherfield's Billy Mayhew, for example (5) |
| PSALM | Biblical song spoken professionally by Billy Mayhew in Coronation Street (5) |
| BILLY | In current soaps, he could be Mitchell, Fletcher or Mayhew (5) |
| REV | Professional title of Billy Mayhew in Corrie (3) |
| DATED | Sean Tully and Billy Mayhew _ briefly in Corrie (5) |
| LEO | Dexter Mayhew in Netflix series One Day (3,7) |
| ONEDAY | Novel of 2009 featuring Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew (3,3) |
| GRIMSHAW | See 34D. Wicked Coronation Street chap who proposed to vicar Billy Mayhew (4,8) |
| TODD | And 6D Wicked Coronation Street chap who proposed to vicar Billy Mayhew (4,8) |
