| FANFIC | Amateurs' stories based on existing characters, briefly |
| PASTICHE | It’s cheap to develop something based on existing material |
| CONTINUE | Go on existing (8) |
| NAUGHTIEST | The - Girl; series of stories based on boarder character Elizabeth Allen (10) |
| CYCLE | Set or series of paintings, poems, romances, songs or stories based on a recurring theme (5) |
| FANTASIST | A daydreamer, rainbow-chaser or wool-gatherer; or, a word for an author of stories based on imaginary worlds, magic, mythical beings etc (9) |
| CHESTERTON | Author of stories based on his character Father Brown, who he describes as having "a face as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling" (10) |
| RANSOME | Author of a series of adventure stories based on four "Swallows" and their sailing rivals, the "Amazons" (7) |
| BARKLEM | Pen name of the children's author and illustrator Gillian Gaze, who wrote the seasonal autumn, spring, summer and winter stories based on the miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge (7) |
| LIVES | Continues stories based around verse (5) |
| DAS | "Law & Order" characters, briefly |
| ETS | Many "Star Trek" characters, briefly |
| WANDA | Female characters briefly in Western Australia? |
| DRS | Many "ER" characters, briefly |
| COPTERS | Rides for many Succession characters, briefly |
| MOCAP | Technique used to animate video-game characters, briefly |
| KANGA | Roo's mother in the stories based in and around Hundred Acre Wood (5) |
| HUCK | Mark Twain character, briefly |
| THETEMPEST | Play Greek character briefly: 1-20 September, roughly? (3,7) |
| OVERHEARS | Catches character briefly grabbed by balls (9) |
