| CRANFORD | Eponymous setting of an 1853 novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, a fictionalised version of Knutsford in Cheshire (8) |
| ANNIE | 1946 musical with songs and lyrics by Irving Berlin, a fictionalised version of the life of an American frontier character (5,3,4,3) |
| GETYOURGUN | 1946 musical with songs and lyrics by Irving Berlin, a fictionalised version of the life of an American frontier character (5,3,4,3) |
| SMITH | Will _, actor who played a fictionalised version of himself in The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air (5) |
| COUSINPHILLIS | Last completed work by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1864 (6,7) |
| AMADEUS | Peter Shaffer play, a fictionalised account of the lives of Mozart and Salieri |
| CRIMEA | Peninsula in today's Ukraine, site of an 1853-6 war (6) |
| GADSDEN | Negotiator of an 1853 purchase |
| ROTH | 1853 novel by the author of Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell (4) |
| MYLADY | - - Ludlow ; novel by North and South author Elizabeth Gaskell (2,4) |
| NILE | River whose name was given to a shade of blue and of green and is the setting of an Agatha Christie novel (4) |
| RACKRENT | Titular castle that was the setting of an 1800 historical novel by Maria Edgeworth (8) |
| LASSIE | Rough collie dog owned by the Carraclough family in a 1940 novel by English author Eric Knight (6) |
| THEBRIDGE | Iain Banks novel using the setting of an engineering structure (3,6) |
| ABOUTABOY | 1998 novel by English author Nick Hornby adapted into a film (2002) and a US TV series (2014-15) (5,1,3) |
| STIG | Title caveman character in a children's novel by English author Clive King (4) |
| AYESHA | 1905 fantasy adventure novel by English author H. Rider Haggard subtitled 'the Return of She' (6) |
| MOREAU | The Island of Doctor ____ , 1896 science fiction novel by English author HG Wells (6) |
| WAROFTHEWORLDS | The ____ , science fiction novel by English author H.G. Wells about a Martian invasion (3,2,3,6) |
| DECLINEANDFALL | First published novel by English author Evelyn Waugh (1928), following the exploits of Paul Pennyfeather (7,3,4) |
