| BAGLEY | Desmond ?, author of the novels Windfall, Juggernaut and The Snow Tiger |
| ANDERSEN | Danish author of a number of fairy tales including The Fir Tree, The Little Match Girl, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and The Snow Man (8) |
| JENNYAGUTTER | Actress who starred in Walkabout, The Railway Children and The Snow Goose and who has starred in the BBC's Call the Midwife since 2012 (5,7) |
| LYNAM | Desmond ?, television presenter whose credits include Match of the Day and Countdown (5) |
| HINDI | Language that gave us "juggernaut" and "cummerbund" |
| GARDNER | Honoured with a blue plaque in 2016, an actress who starred in The Killers and The Snows of Kilimanjaro (7) |
| TUTU | Desmond ?, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize (4) |
| MORRIS | Desmond ?, zoologist and artist who authored 1967 book The Naked Ape |
| NORMASMANOR | Home of Miss Desmond? |
| LORRYDRIVER | Person at the wheel of a juggernaut (5,6) |
| TASED | Charged at Desmond? (5) |
| URSAMAJOR | Great 12 using top of juggernaut as armour (4,5) |
| TALISMAN | Wild animals put on back of juggernaut - that's charming? |
| AUTHOR | In the juggernaut, horrible scenes are conjured up by him (6) |
| SANSKRIT | Ancient language of India whose loanwords in English include avatar, guru, juggernaut etc. (8) |
| ARTICULATED | Clearly expressed description of juggernaut |
| ERAS | The ___ Tour (Taylor Swift concert juggernaut) |
| BORG | Evil "Star Trek" juggernaut, with "the" |
| LOGANBERRY | Fruit squash began to be transported by juggernaut |
| IMG | Sports management juggernaut founded by American Mark McCormack, abbrev (3) |
