| BALLANTYNE | Family chronicled in Wilbur Smith's series of novels that includes Call of the Raven and A Falcon Flies (10) |
| RICHARDSON | Author of the Pilgrimage sequence of novels that includes Backwater, Clear Horizon and Honeycomb (10) |
| FUTURE | The Once and - King; T. H. White's sequence of Arthurian novels that includes The Sword in the Stone (6) |
| EPICPOEM | Depict content on film finale following the author of the Raven and Beowulf? (4,4) |
| CROW | Cousin of the raven and jay |
| WHENTHELIONFEEDS | Wilbur Smith's debut novel and the first of the Courtney saga |
| AGUTTER | Jenny ---, actress whose screen credits include Call the Midwife and The Railway Children |
| AGASAGA | Commander's commander in sort of novel that could go either way? (3,4) |
| PRYDZ | Swedish DJ and producer whose hits include Call On Me, Eric _ (5) |
| IVANHOE | Novel that includes Robin Hood |
| PEYTON | Author of a number of books for children and young people, including Apple Won't Jump, Fly-by-Night, A Pattern of Roses, The Scruffy Pony as well as her classic Flambards novels that were adapted to s |
| ALLANPOE | US author whose works include The Raven and The Fall of the House of Usher (5,5,3) |
| EDGAR | US author whose works include The Raven and The Fall of the House of Usher (5,5,3) |
| THEFORSYTESAGA | 1967 BBC adaptation of a series of John Galsworthy novels that starred Eric Porter, Kenneth More and Nyree Dawn Porter |
| SAGA | Novel in which the generations of a family are chronicled in a long narrative |
| EDGARALLANPOE | American poet who wrote ' The Raven' and went to school in Irvine for a short period (5,5,3) |
| ONEPIECE | Series of Japanese graphic novels that received a live-action adaptation in 2023 (3,5) |
| ISLANDS | - in the Stream; one of Ernest Hemingway's novels that was published posthumously (7) |
| ROOK | Bird related to crows, ravens and jackdaws; or, a chess piece in the form of a battlement (4) |
| ENRON | Collapsed company chronicled in the 2005 documentary subtitled "The Smartest Guys in the Room" |
