| HATTER | Alice's 'mad' tea companion whom she encounters in Wonderland (6) |
| SYMPATHY | Tea's companion |
| FOWLER | Stacey Slater's ex, with whom she is still in love in EastEnders (6) |
| MARTIN | Stacey Slater's ex, with whom she is still in love in EastEnders (6) |
| TEACUP | Funfair ride which in Disneyland is called the Mad Tea Party (6) |
| ESTEEM | Treasure the last of clandestine encounters in retreat (6) |
| EPONYM | Little Emily brought in little horse, after whom she was named (6) |
| MERTON | Vanessa Woodfield's lover with whom she is reunited in Emmerdale (4,6) |
| NEESON | Former partner of Weatherfield hair stylist Maria Connor with whom she cheated in Coronation Street (3,6) |
| ROXANA | Bactrian princess who married the Macedon king Alexander the Great in 327 BC, and to whom she bore Alexander IV (6) |
| HUDSON | Vicki Fowler's friend, whom she slept with behind Ross' back in EastEnders (4,6) |
| CARTER | Frankie Lewis's half-sister with whom she is struggling to bond (5,6) |
| OCONNOR | Diane Hutchinson's stepson whom she visited in prison in Hollyoaks (4,1'6) |
| FINN | Diane Hutchinson's stepson whom she visited in prison in Hollyoaks (4,1'6) |
| MARCHHARE | Character in Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland depicted at the Hatter's mad tea-party with straw on his head (5,4) |
| REPORTEDSPEECH | Grammatical device that one encounters in Hansard? (8,6) |
| ESTEEMED | Prized uplifting encounters in river in Cavan (8) |
| ESTEEMS | Is in Barcelona, absorbing encounters in retreat with counts (7) |
| CHATTERING | Having a talk about Alice's mad acquaintance in golf (10) |
| BETH | Cindy Williams" baby in EastEnders, whom she nearly abandoned in the park! (4) |
