| PREDESTINATION | Dennis Potter composed first-class doctrine (14) |
| SEDATE | Composed first parts of song easily by specific day (6) |
| IDEOLOGY | Class doctrine |
| GAMBON | Sir Michael -, actor whose roles have included Philip Marlow in Dennis Potter's drama The Singing Detective and Albus Dumbledore in some of the Harry Potter films (6) |
| TAYLOR | Dennis Potter? (6) |
| TORIDE | 1986 novel by Dennis Potter (6,2,4) |
| TICKET | 1986 novel by Dennis Potter (6,2,4) |
| LIPSTICK | - on Your Collar ; musical drama series by Dennis Potter (8) |
| COLD | Dennis Potter's Lazarus has mild winter illness (4) |
| LAZARUS | What (Cold ___) was Dennis Potter's final work? (7) |
| DETECTIVE | Dennis Potter wrote the screenplay for the successful BBC series and the 2003 film adaptation, The S |
| PENNIESFROMHEAVEN | A Dennis Potter TV drama series named after a song (7,4,6) |
| BLUE | Dennis Potter drama that took its title from A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad (4,10,5) |
| PSORIASIS | Skin disease from which Dennis Potter famously suffered, inspiring his serial The Singing Detective (9) |
| COLDLAZARUS | Chilly Biblical figure raised from the dead in old Dennis Potter series (4,7) |
| ELBOW | The most sensuous word in the English language, according to Philip Marlow in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective |
| GOSSE | Edmund -; author whose book Father and Son was Dennis Potter's inspiration for the 1976 television play Where Adam Stood (5) |
| BRIMSTONE | Sulphur once used with treacle in Dennis Potter's 1987 TV play (9) |
| UTILITARIANISM | Doctrine that right action produces happiness for the majority (14) |
| EGALITARIANISM | Social theory, say, settled on heretical doctrine (14) |
