| CHARLOTTESWEB | Book by E.B.White in which the heroine befriends a spider (10,3) |
| CARMEN | Bizet opera in which the heroine works in a cigarette factory (6) |
| LITTLENELL | Name by which the heroine of Charles Dickens's novel The Old Curiosity Shop is known |
| CHARLOTTES | 1952 children's book by E B White featuring the pig Wilbur (10,3) |
| WEB | Charlotte's -, children's book by E B White (3) |
| AMANCALLEDOVE | 2014 best-selling novel about a neighborhood curmudgeon who befriends the family next door: 4 wds. |
| STUARTLITTLE | 1945 children's novel by E B White, adapted as a partly animated film in 1999 |
| STUART | 1999 family comedy based on the novel by E. B. White, - Little (6) |
| MOUSE | Stuart Little created by E. B. White is a fictional one (5) |
| RAILWAY | The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Children, children's book by E. Nesbit published in book form in 1906 (7) |
| KES | A 1970 film by Ken Loach about a boy who befriends a bird of prey (3) |
| JANE | Who befriends a dragon in a series of books by Martin Baynton? (4) |
| EIMI | 1933 book by e e cummings about a trip to the Soviet Union (4) |
| LEON | In which film did Natalie Portman make her cinema debut, playing a 12 year-old who befriends a hitman? (4) |
| ROBINSON | Forename of the Selkirk-inspired castaway, shipwrecked for 28 years on a deserted island where he rescues the native Friday from cannibals and befriends a parrot he calls Poll (8) |
| STIG | Name, shared by a helmeted test driver, of Clive King's Stone-Age dump-dweller who befriends a modern boy of the time (4) |
| IRONGIANT | Animated classic in which Hogarth befriends a huge robot |
| LITTLE | Stuart -; novel by E. B. White (6) |
| SECONDSTAGE | A 1953 book by E E 'Doc' Smith (6,5) |
| CHILDREN | The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _: 1970 family film favourite based on the book by E Nesbit (7, 8) |
