| AENEAN | Eponymous hero whom night and sleep left, Aen. 8.67 |
| BRODIE | Jean __, Muriel Spark's hero, whom we meet in her prime? (6) |
| DREAMLAND | Sleep left fellow outside in fear (9) |
| BEDLAM | After sleep, left in the morning uproar |
| HELLBOY | Supernatural thriller - and its eponymous hero - from 2004 and 2019 (7) |
| FINLAY | Doctor___, eponymous hero of a popular 1960s and 1990s TV series (6) |
| IVANHOE | Walter Scott's eponymous hero (7) |
| HARRYPOTTER | J.K. Rowling's eponymous hero (5,6) |
| TITLEROLE | Eponymous hero heading towards tumble, say (5,4) |
| KRAPP | Eponymous hero of a 1958 play by Samuel Beckett (5) |
| THEANCIENTMARINER | Eponymous hero of a Coleridge poem (3,7,7) |
| TWIST | Eponymous hero in plot development |
| HUNCHBACK | Hugo's eponymous hero had to second guess at first |
| OTHELLO | Old leader in tragedy greeting play's eponymous hero |
| DAVIDCOPPERFIELD | Keen policeman breaking up corrupt fiddle becomes eponymous hero |
| BORISGODUNOV | Russian ruler, eponymous hero of Pushkin's play of 1831 (5,7) |
| ADAMBEDE | Eponymous hero, graduate in a woman's clutches (4,4) |
| BESS | Eponymous hero of a 12 by the Gershwins (4) |
| BOVARY | Emma ___, Flaubert's eponymous hero (6) |
| BEAUGESTE | Biden tops, enthused Spooner of P.C. Wren's eponymous hero (4,5) |
