| BIOSPHERE | Be crossing 5-across off the world of the living (9) |
| CHARON | His duty was to ferry the souls of the newly deceased across the river Styx, which divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. |
| SIDE | With 44-Across, off-the-record discussions ... or 12 answers in this puzzle? |
| SCIENTIST | The dub producer who's met Pac-Man and the Space Invaders and rid The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires (9) |
| BEAUMONDE | French description of the "beautiful world" of the fashionable elite, high society or le bon ton (4,5) |
| CAMBRIDGE | River crossing 5 16D's city (9) |
| CHERISH | Think the world of the child ___ the heirs are worried (7) |
| DWELT | Lived in Germany with the world of the Germans (5) |
| ORCUS | Hades; the world of the dead (5) |
| GLOBE | The world of the Theatre (5) |
| COPLAND | The world of the busy composer (7) |
| LEMONADE | One enters the world of the Sorbonne for a refresher (8) |
| ADMIRES | Respects and thinks the world of the terribly sad emir (7) |
| HEL | The world of the dead (Norse myth.) |
| VANDERPOST | A godfather of Prince William who wrote about the plight of the South African bushmen in his book The Lost World of the Kalahari (3,3,4) |
| BARKLEM | Pen name of the children's author and illustrator Gillian Gaze, who wrote the seasonal autumn, spring, summer and winter stories based on the miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge (7) |
| HERACLES | One of the labours of this warrior was to bring the "monstrous watchdog of the underworld" to the land of the living; after succeeding in doing this, he returned this creature to the underworld. |
| SUPERNAL | From the world of the divine |
| BASILISK | Mythical lizard with a lethal glance, mentioned in Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Richard III and existing in the world of the Harry Potter books (8) |
| HADES | THE WORLD OF THE DEAD |
