| DERVLA | Ballykissangel and Goodnight Sweetheart star, _ Kirwan (6) |
| KIRWAN | Dervla _, star of Ballykissangel and Goodnight Sweetheart (6) |
| DERVLAKISWAN | Star of Ballykissangel and Goodnight Sweetheart (6,6) |
| COWARD | Playwright befriended by Gary in Goodnight Sweetheart, Noel ... (6) |
| FARRELL | Colin -; actor who appeared in Ballykissangel and later starred alongside Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's in Minority Report (7) |
| NICHOLAS | ___ Lyndhurst, star of TV series Goodnight Sweetheart and Only Fools and Horses (8) |
| GOODNIGHT | Sitcom with Dervla Kirwan and Nicholas Lyndhurst, --------- Sweetheart (9) |
| COLE | Martina ?, author of novels Dangerous Lady and Goodnight Lady (4) |
| LYNDHURST | Nicholas ---, actor who played Gary Sparrow in Goodnight Sweetheart (9) |
| SPARROW | Nicholas Lyndhurst's character in Goodnight Sweetheart, Gary ------- (7) |
| RIGHTWING | Where John Kirwan played could be conservative (5,4) |
| SMOTHER | Dervla Kirwan starred in this Irish thriller |
| WHINGER | John Kirwan perhaps admits he initially was a grumbler (7) |
| VILLAGE | Rural settlement or community with fictional examples including Ballykissangel, Bramley End, Candleford Green, Dibley, Downton, Glenbogle and Thrush GreenA (7) |
| NIALL | Ballykissangel actor, ----- Toibin (5) |
| ELITIST | In Ballykissangel it is thought to be snobbish (7) |
| IRELAND | Ballykissangel country |
| HARLIN | Renny ___, director of the films Cliffhanger, Deep Blue Sea and The Long Kiss Goodnight (6) |
| EKLAND | Swedish actress who played Mary Goodnight in 1974 action film The Man with the Golden Gun (5,6) |
| THETWO | It's goodnight from them! (3,3,7) |