| COLONELBLIMP | Cartoon character created by David Low in the 19305 (7.5) |
| COLONEL | Cartoon character created by David Low in the 1930s (7,5) |
| BLIMP | Cartoon character created by David Low in the 1930s (7,5) |
| GEORGEFORMBY | English comedian who starred in musical films of the 19305, famous for playing the ukulele (6,6) |
| ABSOLUTEZERO | Theoretically, the lowest of the low in the terribly cold state (8,4) |
| SAMCOSTA | Popular band singer in the 19305 who later became a voice actor on the radio show Much- Binding-in-the-Marsh (35) |
| NYLON | Strong polymer first produced by the DuPont firm in the 19305 (5) |
| GULAG | Division of the Soviet secret police created under Stalin in the 19305 to administer prisons and forced labour camps (5) |
| PLAYDOH | Soft coloured modelling clay first manufactured in Cincinnati as a wallpaper cleaner in the 19305 ((4-3) |
| ETHELMERMAN | 20th-century American actress and singer who starred in Anything Goes on film and on Broadway in the 19305 (5,6) |
| JOHN | - - - - Innes, horticulturist famous for his potting composts introduced in the 19305 (4) |
| DUKEELLINGTON | Americanjazz pianist, composer and bandleader popular in the 19305 (4,9) |
| MRBENN | Character created by David McKee for several children's books and an animated TV series on the BBC |
| ZIGGYSTARDUST | Character created by David Bowie (5,8) |
| ROLLO | 1980 animated series about a character created by David McKee |
| KING | 1980 animated series about a character created by David McKee |
| TIDE | The high and the low, in the main (4) |
| DUSTBOWL | Area of the south central US denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-19305 (4,4) |
| POUFFE | Lying low in the drawing room, the original detective writer embraces paramilitary group (6) |
| SMOOTH | Soft at the edges, low in the middle, hard and flat (6) |
