| BOBTHEBUILDER | Animated character in book, note, avoiding dreadful trouble behind (3,3,7) |
| WIDOW | Bereaved woman, note, avoiding light (5) |
| ALUMNI | Last minute adjustment avoiding dreadful test for ex-students (6) |
| INFIGHTING | Trouble behind the scenes, funny thing after being dressed up when full (2-8) |
| SETBACK | The trouble behind TV, say (7) |
| NIPINTHEBUD | Stop at an early stage trouble behind input (3,2,3,3) |
| AWAYFROMITALL | Where one may get to leave one's troubles behind one (4,4,2,3) |
| PLUTONIUM | Element shows animated character in strange hesitation |
| PEBBLES | Young animated character in the Stones (7) |
| DOC | Animated character in a 1937 film |
| TRAMP | Animated character in a famous spaghetti scene |
| SQUAREPANTS | SpongeBob -, animated character in box B (11) |
| VOLATILITY | Mercurial character in book: it's set in turbulent Italy (10) |
| IOTA | Character in book written in Midwest state |
| BORROWER | Little character in book or king in shady place (8) |
| ANNUAL | Obsessive about Homeric character in book (6) |
| EZRA | Time to include final character in book |
| KISMET | Passionate character in book is serenaded (6) |
| ABBA | Quartet - a lead character in book starts to become annoying (4) |
| EPONYM | Character in book, play, same as title (6) |
