| BELLE | Disney character described by villagers in song as "a most peculiar mademoiselle" |
| VAN | Sort of vehicle that's driven around the Dales by villager Zak Dingle (3) |
| GUEST | Gus has an alien being as a most welcome visitor (5) |
| KANE | Title film character described by a reporter as "a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it" |
| EMMA | Character described by Austen as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like" |
| TAOISM | One is taken in by a most peculiar philosophy |
| ECCLES | Goon show character described by Neddy Seagoon as "the nearest thing I had seen to a human being without actually being one" |
| BALOO | Character described by its creator Rudyard Kipling as: 'the sleepy brown bear' (5) |
| ATMOSPHERE | Ambience? A most peculiar piano in this place |
| EGGS | 'I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks ___' (Shakespeare As You Like It act 2, sc. 5) (4) |
| MALARIA | Mother left a song as a complaint (7) |
| RODCAREW | Baseball Hall-of-Famer mistakenly listed in "The Chanukah Song" as a Jew |
| MASTODON | A most peculiar fellow, this giant from the past |
| BANGERSANDMASH | Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren recorded this song as a follow-up to Goodness Gracious Me |
| ARGUE | A most peculiar urge, you contend (5) |
| HENLEY | Don, Eagles vocalist and drummer whose songs as a solo artist include The Boys of Summer released in 1984 (6) |
| AHAB | Literary character described as "a Khan of the plank, and a king of the sea, and a great lord of Leviathans" |
| EBENEZERSCROOGE | Dickens character described as "hard and sharp as flint . . secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster" (8,7) |
| UNKNOWN | The ___ (character described as an evil chocolate maker living in the walls, in "Willy's Chocolate Experience") |
| MOE | "Calvin and Hobbes" character described as "a six-year-old who shaves" |
