| HORDERN | Actor whose parts ranged from King Lear to the voice of Paddington Bear and of Badger in The Wind in the Willows (7) |
| GIVESAFAIRSHAKESPEARE | Donates some copies of "King Lear" to the Renaissance Festival? |
| WILDWOOD | Region inhabited by Badger in The Wind in the Willows ; or, an album by Paul Weller (4,4) |
| OFCONSANGUINITY | "[The British] have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and ___." (racism!) |
| BEAUTIES | Sonnet 77: Thy glass will show thee how thy ___ wear, / Thy dial how they precious minutes waste; / The vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear, / And of this book this learning mayst thou taste. |
| SHER | Actor whose roles ranged from Shakespearean characters to Chief Weasel in the 1996 film adaptation of The Wind in the Willows (4) |
| WILD | - Wood; home of Badger in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (4) |
| BRANAGH | Actor whose roles have ranged from Henry V and Hamlet to Frankenstein and wizard Gilderoy Lockhart (7) |
| SETANEXAMPLE | Do the right thing for the badger in the middle of Uganda by way of illustration (3,2,7) |
| WHISHAW | Ben _, provided the voice of Paddington in the 2014 film (7) |
| READING | In which city did Jane Austen and the creator of Paddington Bear, Michael Bond, go to school? (7) |
| TOFT | Staffordshire slipware potter whose designs ranged from unicorns, wyverns, mermaids, pelicans with cross-hatched borders to Charles II in the Boscobel Oak (4) |
| RAN | Akira Kurosawa transposed Shakespeare's King Lear to feudal Japan in this 1985 movie |
| BEN | _ Whishaw, the voice of Paddington on film (3) |
| FRAGRANCE | Scent of badger in nearby country |
| GLUEEAR | Family leaves King Lear to grapple with upper-class English complaint (4,3) |
| PANDA | The first two appearances of Paddington Bear (sort of) (5) |
| PASTUZO | Uncle of Paddington Bear voiced by Michael Gambon in two Paddington films (7) |
| LAMPS | Reading aids, whose parts include the ends of 17-, 23-, 45- and 57- Across |
| FOOT | Body part whose parts are aptly found at the bottom of this puzzle's four longest answers |
