| BLACKSHEEPOFTHEFAMILY | Dubious character, part of a rhyme, and of a film they cobbled together |
| ERNIE | Orange Muppet character, part of a comic duo with Bert (5) |
| OMEGA | Foreign character, part of a fearsome gang (5) |
| INCUBUS | Oppressive character part of Baden-Powell group? Initially unwanted in that (7) |
| ACORN | Word, related to the name of a cereal crop and of a unit of land, for any wild fruit or nut originally, later a specific cupule-borne forest fruit, squirrel snack and chief form of pig mast from which |
| CAMEO | Small character part in a play or film by a distinguished actor / small piece of onyx or other hard stone carved in relief with a background of a different color |
| JEROME | Author of the humorous account of a trip up the Thames in Three Men in a Boat and of a cycling tour in Three Men on the Bummel (6) |
| LEAF | Part of a plant and of a book (4) |
| RUBADUBDUB | Start of a rhyme featuring a butcher and baker |
| DULWICH | District in London's Southwark, site of a public school founded by Edward Alleyn as the College of God's Gift and of a picture gallery designed by Sir John Soane (7) |
| EAST | Direction of the rising sun, thus symbolic of awakenings, beginnings, rebirth and of a new dawn (4) |
| SEVERN | Name of Britain's longest river and of a river in NSW (6) |
| YORK | Susannah --, actress who starred in the 1969 film 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' (4) |
| BOYEGA | John _, star of the 2023 film They Cloned Tyrone (6) |
| SUSANNAHYORK | British actress who was Oscar-nominated for the film They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (8,4) |
| JACKBE | Start of a rhyme about a spry lad |
| EENY | Start of a rhyme about a tiger |
| OPERATOR | A dubious character, this masked man in theatre? (8) |
| FOR | Bonus earned by Jack Robinson, he of dubious character (3,3,3,3) |
| HIS | Bonus earned by Jack Robinson, he of dubious character (3,3,3,3) |
