| GEORGEORWELL | Author of the novels Nineteen Eighty-Four and Coming Up for Air |
| ORWELL | George, author of the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (6) |
| HURT | Award-winning English stage and screen actor who starred in the films Alien, Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Elephant Man (4) |
| AIRSTRIPONE | Name for the British Isles in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| NEWSPEAK | Language created by by George Orwell in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| BIGBROTHER | Character and symbol in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the leader of the totalitarian state of Oceania (3,7) |
| WINSTONSMITH | The protagonist of George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (7,5) |
| OCEANIA | One of the fictional nations in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| SMITH | Who is the protagonist of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-four? (7,5) |
| WINSTON | Who is the protagonist of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-four? (7,5) |
| NEPTUNE | God in the form of swan coming up for air (7) |
| JURA | Island of the Inner Hebrides on which George Orwell wrote his 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (4) |
| INTHESAMEBREATH | Said almost simultaneously without coming up for air (2,3,4,6) |
| NIGERIA | No end to Nigel coming up for air in African country (7) |
| GASP | Sound after coming up for air |
| RECIPE | On and coming up, kind of movie guide (6) |
| SURFACE | Come up for air - like the champion of Bondi? |
| NONET | A musical group and, coming up, a larger one performing |
| NEXT | Ten in ten returning, and coming up (4) |
| TEASES | "Still ahead ..." and "Coming up next ...," in broadcasting lingo |
