| WILTON | Actress whose roles include Ann Bryce in Ever Decreasing Circles, Homily in The Borrowers and Isobel Crawley in Downton Abbey (6) |
| NORTON | Author who wrote of the fictional Clock, Harpsichord, Overmantel, Rainbarrel and Rain Pipe families in The Borrowers (6) |
| MICROFILM | On which to store documents in The Borrowers maybe? (9) |
| PETEREGAN | Actor who played Paul Ryman in Ever Decreasing Circles and Magnus Pym in A Perfect Spy |
| WHEELSWITHINWHEELS | Secret influence in ever-decreasing circles? |
| PARALLELS | They go from equator to poles in ever-decreasing circles (9) |
| EGAN | Played Paul Ryman in Ever Decreasing Circles, Peter _ (4) |
| BRIERS | Richard, actor who starred in television sitcoms including The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles (6) |
| MARTINBRYCE | Who did Richard Briers play in TV'S Ever Decreasing Circles? (6,5) |
| DRAINS | Underground structures/regions that feature in Mary Norton's The Borrowers Afloat or in the film Flushed Away (6) |
| CLOCK | Spherical seed head of a dandelion; or, the name of the diminutive family in Mary Norton's The Borrowers (5) |
| IMRIE | British actress whose films include 1997's The Borrowers, Celia _ (5) |
| CAPEVERDE | Islands madcap, ever-decreasing circles (4,5) |
| SITCOM | e.g. Ever Decreasing Circles (6) |
| LAVALAMP | Electric light in which a viscous substance moves in ever-changing shapes (4,4) |
| ALOFT | The Borrowers -; one of the children's novels by Mary Norton (5) |
| KATHERINEHEIGL | American actress who played Dr Isobel "Izzie" Stevens in Grey's Anatomy from 2005 to 2010 |
| LENNART | Isobel ******* , playwright who wrote the book for the musical 'Funny Girl' (7) |
| METABOLISM | Zuckerberg empire Isobel got mixed up with in order to generate energy in body (10) |
| CIRCLES | Word that follows Ever Decreasing to complete the title of a 1980s sitcom (7) |
