| THEANCIENTMARINER | Eponymous hero of a Coleridge poem (3,7,7) |
| TAMOSHANTER | Eponymous hero of a Burns poem (3,8) |
| ALPH | Sacred River in a Coleridge poem (and a Rush song) |
| EOLIAN | Type of harp in a Coleridge poem title |
| KRAPP | Eponymous hero of a 1958 play by Samuel Beckett (5) |
| BESS | Eponymous hero of a 12 by the Gershwins (4) |
| IVANHOE | Eponymous hero of a Walter Scott novel (7) |
| CORELLI | Captain _____, eponymous hero of a novel by Louis de Bernieres (7) |
| ALMA | __ Mahler, eponymous hero of a Tom Lehrer song (4) |
| ROMEO | Eponymous hero of a tragic Shakespearean play (5) |
| ANCIENTMARINER | Fictional sea dog in a Coleridge poem |
| KHAN | Kublai ___, Chinese emperor immortalised in a Coleridge poem (4) |
| XANADU | Utopian locale in a Coleridge poem |
| FINLAY | Doctor___, eponymous hero of a popular 1960s and 1990s TV series (6) |
| AUGIEMARCH | Eponymous hero of a picaresque novel by Saul Bellow published in 1953 |
| DRWHOANDTHEDALEKS | Film (1965) starring Peter Cushing as the eponymous hero (2,3,3,3,6) |
| FIGARO | Eponymous hero of Rossini's The Barber of Seville (6) |
| BORISGODUNOV | Russian ruler, eponymous hero of Pushkin's play of 1831 (5,7) |
| ADAMBEDE | Eponymous hero of George Eliot's first novel (4,4) |
| LEGRANDMEAULNES | The eponymous hero of Alain-Fournier's classic novel |
