| DEBBIE | Charley Webb's soap character who has quietly departed Emmerdale (6) |
| WEBSTER | Sophie ___, has quietly departed Weatherfield (7) |
| KENBARLOW | Record-breaking soap character who lives at No 1 Coronation Street (3,6) |
| STEELE | Actress who departed Emmerdale when her character was crushed by a caravan (6,6) |
| ISOBEL | Actress who departed Emmerdale when her character was crushed by a caravan (6,6) |
| ASHLEY | He lays out departed Emmerdale character (6) |
| CARTER | He played recently departed Emmerdale bloke Nate Robinson, with whom Moira once had an affair (6,6) |
| JURELL | He played recently departed Emmerdale bloke Nate Robinson, with whom Moira once had an affair (6,6) |
| JEREMY | Robert Webb's character in Peep Show, _ Usborne (6) |
| RANSOM | It's demanded sometimes when soap characters are kidnapped (6) |
| BIGAMY | Marriage crime that soap characters often commit (6) |
| RARELY | How often soap characters find prolonged happiness (6) |
| HEATED | Intensely passionate, like arguments between soap characters often are! (6) |
| NURSES | Former soap characters Sonia Fowler and Wendy Posner, by profession (6) |
| POIROT | Agatha Christie character who has been played by John Malkovich and David Suchet (6) |
| MINNIE | Comic character who has a statue in Dundee, - the Minx (6) |
| CASSIE | Claire Sweeney's Corrie character, who has a crush on Kevin Webster (6,7) |
| HAROLD | _ Bishop, iconic Neighbours character who has an apartment at Eirini Rising (6) |
| LAWYER | Profession of Toadie, Neighbours character who has left Erinsborough for Colac (6) |
| RAMSAY | Original Neighbours character who has returned to Erinsborough with his son Max (6) |
