| ASTERIX | Comic French cartoon hero first appearing in 1959 (7) |
| RABELAIS | Artist admits first victim is an old comic French writer (8) |
| REHOUSE | Employ confused hero first to provide new accommodation (7) |
| ZORRO | Fictional hero first filmed in 1920 |
| ROOTCANAL | The French cartoon gets the treatment (4,5) |
| EARL | Tragic hero first to last is noble (4) |
| ASTERISK | French cartoon character, it's said, is a star (8) |
| THELITTLE | ___ Prince, 2015 French cartoon based on a classic children's book (3,6) |
| SWEENEY | Murderous fictional barber first appearing in the serialised penny dreadful The String of Pearls: A Domestic Romance (1846-7) (7,4) |
| TAGALOG | A record label first appearing in Filipino language (7) |
| SHUSTER | Joe ___, Toronto-born cartoonist who created Superman (first appearing in Action Comics in June 1938) with America's Jerry Siegel |
| STIRRUP | Support prison riot at first, appearing in court |
| OURLADY | Thy son, first appearing in the East? (3,4) |
| RESTIVE | Proffer no Government support at first, appearing uneasy (7) |
| ECLOSES | Ant does this when first appearing, Dec starting late fails |
| ATOMANT | Cartoon hero who battled Ferocious Flea |
| BOATMAN | Cartoon hero protecting old George - or Harris, maybe |
| DILBERT | Workplace cartoon hero |
| TODD | Murderous fictional barber first appearing in the serialised penny dreadful The String of Pearls: A Domestic Romance (1846-7) (7,4) |
| BETTYBOOP | Animated cartoon character of a Jazz Age flapper, first appearing in 1930 |
