| AMOSOZ | Author of novels My Michael and Panther in the Basement (4,2) |
| JAGUAR | Operating system between Puma and Panther |
| AMANITA | A genus of fungi that includes the blusher, death cap, destroying angel, or fool's mushroom, fly agaric, grisette and panther cap (7) |
| KOOMSON | Dorothy ___, author of novels My Best Friend's Girl and The Ice Cream Girls (7) |
| EBLANA | Theatre located in the basement of BusA¡ras, but no longer in operation. It took its name from a settlement identified by Ptolemy. (6) |
| ODESSA | Texas city obsessed with the Permian Panthers in "Friday Night Lights" |
| CAREER | Author Miles Franklin banned her semi-autobiographical novel, My Brilliant ..., from being re-issued for ten years after her death in 1954 |
| SIENNA | Scheming Hollyoaks woman who locked her twin brother in the basement! (6,5) |
| CELLAR | Reportedly there is a vendor in the basement (6) |
| LIELOW | Hide - take to your bed in the basement (3,3) |
| GOALIE | Panther in a cage? |
| COUSIN | Daphne du Maurier novel, My ... Rachel |
| RACHEL | Daphne du Maurier novel, My Cousin ... |
| FLICKA | Classic horse novel, My Friend ... (6) |
| ROARTY | Storm and Panthers forward until 2003, Ben ... (6) |
| BERETS | Hats for painters and Panthers |
| GEM | The Pink Panther, in "The Pink Panther" |
| JEWEL | The Pink Panther, in "The Pink Panther" |
| PICOULT | Jodi ___, author of the novels My Sister's Keeper and Harvesting the Heart (7) |
| BAGHEERA | Black panther in the Rudyard Kipling novel The Jungle Book (8) |
