| STRINDBERG | August ____'s satire The Red Room (1879) is second to Pippi Longstocking in an online "greatest Swedish books" list |
| STRIMDBERG | Swedish playwright who also wrote the novel The Red Room (10) |
| BACTERIA | The two nations in Charlie Chaplin's satire The Great Dictator were Adenoid Hynkyl's Tomainia and Benzino Napaloni's ... |
| ADDISON | Chris, who played Ollie Reeder in political satire The Thick of It, is featured in supplement (7) |
| KARLURBAN | The Lord of the Rings actor who plays vigilante leader Billy Butcher on the superhero satire The Boys: 2 wds. |
| JANEEYRE | Charlotte Bronte's Bildungsroman featuring a "red room" symbolic of the titular heroine's entrapment, fear and quest for liberty (4,4) |
| MARKMESSIER | Hockey player nicknamed The Messiah who is second to Wayne Gretzky in all-time playoff points: 2 wds. |
| EDAM | Variety of red-waxed "kaas" or "fromage" that is second to Gouda as Holland's most exported cheese (4) |
| ERASMUS | What pseudonym did a professor of Divinity and Greek at Cambridge use when he published the satire The Praise of Folly (1509) |
| ASTRID | ____ Lindgren, Swedish writer who created the children's book character Pippi Longstocking (6) |
| EMPIRE | Style of the White House's Red Room |
| ROPE | Prop in Christian Grey's Red Room |
| EYRE | Jane who is locked in a red room as a child |
| LINDGREN | Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays who wrote the Pippi Longstocking stories (6,8) |
| UNBEATEN | A foreign strike in the middle of Valencia is second to none (8) |
| JEMIMA | Announced prize: the setter is second to Harry Potter's duck! (6) |
| INIMITABLE | Cooper coming back to pick up one work surface is second to none (10) |
| MARIOLEMIEUX | Pittsburgh Penguins Hall of Famer who is second to Wayne Gretzky in all-time points per game: 2 wds. |
| JAROMIRJAGR | Czech hockey great who is second to Wayne Gretzky in all-time total points: 2 wds. |
| DAILY | Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah's news satire, The ... Show (5) |
