| BETTYBOOP | Animated cartoon character of a Jazz Age flapper, first appearing in 1930 |
| BETTY | --- Boop, animated cartoon character created in 1930, based on a Jazz Age flapper (5) |
| DREW | First appearing in 1930 and featuring in 175 novels to 2003, which fictional detective solved countless mysteries? (5,4) |
| NANCY | First appearing in 1930 and featuring in 175 novels to 2003, which fictional detective solved countless mysteries? (5,4) |
| DORA | Bilingual cartoon character of kids' TV |
| BLUE | Colour of a funk, shade of sadness, hue of the rude or lewd or a tint of a jazz standard by Thelonious Monk (4) |
| BOOP | Surname of animated cartoon character who first appeared in 1930 (4) |
| FIFTY | Variant of "Tie a dry fly" first appearing in 1958 (5-4-3) |
| SPONGEBOBSQUAREPANTS | Animated cartoon character who lives in a submerged pineapple and has a pet snail called Gary |
| TODD | Murderous fictional barber first appearing in the serialised penny dreadful The String of Pearls: A Domestic Romance (1846-7) (7,4) |
| SWEENEY | Murderous fictional barber first appearing in the serialised penny dreadful The String of Pearls: A Domestic Romance (1846-7) (7,4) |
| GUINEVERE | (GKN) Wife of the legendary King Arthur, first appearing in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Begum Britanniae (c. 1136) (9) |
| WINNIETHEPOOH | Who is celebrating 100 years, first appearing in a story commissioned by a London newspaper for Christmas Eve, 1925? (6-3-4) |
| TAGALOG | A record label first appearing in Filipino language |
| ASTERIX | Comic French cartoon hero first appearing in 1959 (7) |
| TAUPE | A shade uneasy at first, appearing in video (5) |
| ANTIHERO | Novel character first appearing in another novel (8) |
| CASPER | Animated cartoon character who first appeared on screen in 1945, _ the Friendly Ghost (6) |
| SHUSTER | Joe ___, Toronto-born cartoonist who created Superman (first appearing in Action Comics in June 1938) with America's Jerry Siegel |
| GLENDA | ___ Slagg, fictional parodic columnist in the satirical magazine Private Eye, first appearing in the mid-1960s (6) |
