| KATO | Bruce Lee role based on an old radio character |
| SABRINATHE | US television series starring Melissa Joan Hart in the title role based on an Archie Comics title (7,3,7,5) |
| TEENAGEWITCH | US television series starring Melissa Joan Hart in the title role based on an Archie Comics title (7,3,7,5) |
| VOL | Letters on an old radio knob |
| QUIZKID | High-IQ child on an old radio game show |
| DIAL | Knob that's twisted on an old radio |
| KNOB | Adjustment means on an old radio |
| TIMESIGNAL | Series of beeps on an old radio broadcast, e.g. |
| KANE | Welles role based on Hearst |
| ADELE | ___ Hugo, 1975 Isabelle Adjani role based on a real-life story |
| COACH | Samuel L. Jackson role, based on a real person, ___ Carter |
| HIAWATHA | 1952 drama starring Vincent Edwards in the title role based on a poem by H W Longfellow (8) |
| TESS | Film starring Nastassja Kinski in the title role, based on a Thomas Hardy novel (4) |
| COUSINBETTE | 1998 film starring Jessica Lange in the title role, based on a Honore de Balzac novel (6,5) |
| SWAMPTHING | 1982 Wes Craven film featuring Dick Durock in the title role based on a DC Comics book (5,5) |
| ISLAND | Based on an Old English word meaning "watery", a mass of terra firma such as a cay, key, eyot, inch, holm, skerry or any other one of those forming an archipelago (6) |
| RETREAD | Hackneyed work based on an old idea |
| ELIJAH | Mendelssohn oratorio based on an Old Testament prophet |
| PRINCEIGOR | Borodin opera based on an old Russian epic (6,4) |
| ALOUETTE | Children's song that's based on an old work song melody |
