| SUCHET | David _, played Poirot on TV (6) |
| USTINOV | Actor who played Poirot on TV in the 1980s, Peter _ (7) |
| BRANAGH | Sir Kenneth _, played Poirot on the silver screen (7) |
| MOFFATT | John ___, actor who played Hercule Poirot on BBC Radio 4 (7) |
| HAIG | David _, played Inspector Grim in The Thin Blue Line (4) |
| SOUL | David ___: Played Starsky's partner Hutch (4) |
| SCHWIMMER | David _, played Ross in Friends (9) |
| TENNANT | David _ played the 10th and 14th Doctor (7) |
| MALKOVICH | John ---, US actor who played Poirot in a 2018 BBC series |
| PETERUSTINOV | Actor who played Poirot in several films in the 1970s and 1980s (5,7) |
| TOILET | Poirot ultimately after material, something to go on? (6) |
| MURDER | ___ on the Orient Express, Poirot film (6) |
| ORIENT | Murder on the - Express; one of Agatha Christie's novels featuring Hercule Poirot (6) |
| FINNEY | Actor whose roles include Hercule Poirot in the 1974 film version of Murder on the Orient Express and Sir Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm (6) |
| MARPLE | Astute white-haired amateur sleuth who, unlike Poirot and his "little grey cells", relies on her understanding of human fallibility from the petty goings-on in her quaint village of St Mary Mead to un |
| CASSIS | Creme de -; blackcurrant liqueur; a favourite drink of Hercule Poirot (6) |
| PELLET | Poirot heartlessly arrests that girl in French ball (6) |
| AGATHA | Detective Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple ' s creator, _ Christie (6) |
| CLOCKS | The ?, 1963 Agatha Christie novel featuring Hercule Poirot (6) |
| EDITOR | Journalist Poirot identified going back inside (6) |
