| BORNFREE | Book and film about naturalist Joy Adamson's rearing of a lion cub (4,4) |
| ELSA | Lioness featured in a number of books by naturalist Joy Adamson |
| BLUE | Sad about naturalist Sir David Attenborough's planet (4) |
| GOMORRAH | Robert Saviano's book and film about the Camorra crime organisation (8) |
| ADAMSON | Joy , naturalist and author of Bom Free, an account of her experience raising a lion cub (7) |
| MURDERED | Finished off rearing of French racehorse |
| YOUNGSON | Lion cub Simba, to Mufasa |
| AGONY | The ___ and the Ecstasy: book and film about Michelangelo. (5) |
| THECOMMITMENTS | Roddy Doyle book and film about a Dublin soul band |
| FARM | From a Latin word originally used to denote a tax or rent, a tract of land for the cultivation of crops or rearing of livestock, including its associated barns and homestead (4) |
| THERAILWAYMAN | Book and film about Eric Lomax, WWII POW (3,7,3) |
| FROSTNIXON | Play and film about a 1977 series of interviews with a former president |
| UNSOCIABLE | A lion's cub, disturbed close to cave, is hostile (10) |
| DEN | Where a lion cub is raised |
| BATTERY | A large group of cages for intensive rearing of poultry (7) |
| ASTRO | Animated sci-fi TV series and film about a young android hero, ___ Boy (5) |
| HULK | TV series & film about a scientist and his alter-ego monster, The Incredible ___ |
| PLAYITAGAINSAM | Woody Allen play and film about a man who idolises Humphrey Bogart |
| FREE | Joy Adamson's book which made Elsa internationally famous, Born ... |
| SERICULTURE | The rearing of silkworms for the production of raw silk (11) |
