| ADUMBRATED | Bad, mad true drunk is portrayed in outline |
| REEVALUATE | Leave a true drunk to make further judgement (2-8) |
| LY | Suffix for bad, mad or sad |
| NESS | Ending for glad, bad, mad and sad |
| ERICLIDDELL | Scottish athlete whose win in the 400 metres at the 1924 Olympics is portrayed in the film Chariots of Fire (4,7) |
| BOYLE | Irish-born scientist whose description of an experiment on a bird in an air pump is portrayed in a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby (5) |
| XANADU | Which city is portrayed in Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan"? (6) |
| PRACTISED | Accomplished performance is portrayed in soft colour (9) |
| ORWELL | Pen name of the Bengal-hem author Eric Arthur Blair who wrote Animal Farm. coined the phrase Big Brother and is portrayed in Mr Jones(6) |
| RICHARD | - III; last king of the House of York who is portrayed in Shakespearean plays and John Rous' armorial roll-chronicle and Historic Regum Angliae (7) |
| OUR | The Battle of Iwo Jima is portrayed in Clint Eastwood's film, Flags Of ... Fathers |
| QUEENOFSPADES | The answer is an opera in which honour is portrayed (5,2,6) |
| ARISTOCRAT | Noble actor is portrayed differently in painting |
| THECROWN | Drama in which the Queen is portrayed by Claire Foy (3,5) |
| MEASUREFORMEASURE | A play in which the judge Angelo is portrayed as a villain (7,3,7) |
| DANIELHARDMAN | Co-founder of the firm in Suits who was the former managing partner before Jessica Pearson and is portrayed by David Costabile: 2 wds. |
| AUDLEY | - End House; Jacobean property in Essex whose former head cook Mrs Avis Crocombe is portrayed on the English Heritage YouTube channel (6) |
| CHILD | Pen name of a novelist whose character Jack Reacher is portrayed by Tom Cruise in two movies (5) |
| VERA | Novelist Ann Cleeves's sleuth character who is portrayed by Brenda Blethyn in a crime drama series (4) |
| REA | Actor Stephen who is portrayed as a character in the 2024 historical drama series "Say Nothing" |
