| CARNIVALE | Dark fantasy featuring a circus |
| DREAM | Fantasy featuring doctor who raps in the morning |
| ALICEIN | Dark fantasy starring Johnny Depp, ... Wonderland (5,2) |
| PANTSLABYRINTH | 2006 dark fantasy film about an intricate series of paths and trousers? |
| PANSLABYRINTH | 2006 Guillermo del Toro dark fantasy film set in Spain that won three Oscars: 2 wds. |
| SHAPE | Dark fantasy film that won the 2018 Academy Award for Best Picture, The _ of Water (5) |
| OFEASTWICK | Jack Nicholson and Cher dark fantasy-comedy, The Witches ... (2,8) |
| SUPERNATURAL | Jared Padalecki dark fantasy that has been on the air since 2005: 2 wds. |
| PANS | 2006 Guillermo del Toro dark fantasy film, - Labyrinth (3'1) |
| BEETLEJUICE | 1988 dark fantasy comedy horror film starring Winona Ryder (11) |
| LEGEND | 1985 dark fantasy film by Ridley Scott starring Tom Cruise |
| TOP | Word for a carrot leaf; a circus tent; a crest or tuft; a lid; a teetotum; a T-shirt; or, the uppermost creamy layer of unhomogenised milk (3) |
| JOEY | Nickname of a threepenny bit; a circus clown in the English tradition; or, a baby kangaroo, koala, opossum, wallaby or other marsupial (4) |
| FLEA | It can be a market or a circus |
| TAMED | Prepared for a circus, in a way |
| DIM | A few clowns short of a circus |
| ACROBAT | Man devoured by a lion perhaps - a circus performer |
| CIRCA | About a circus we left with a following (5) |
| ANIMALCRACKER | Treat in a box with a circus wagon design |
| UNICYCLE | A one-wheeled vehicle used in a circus |
