| RIVERBANK | Fictional home of the water vole Ratty in The Wind in the Willows (9) |
| WATERVOLE | Animal called Ratty in The Wind in the Willows (5,4) |
| RATTY | Name of the water vole in The Wind in the Willows (5) |
| MESSABOUT | Informal term meaning dilly-dally, footle, potter or tinker, like Ratty in boats, say; to meddle or interfere; to caper, gambol, skylark or play the fool; or, to carry on, philander, romp or generally |
| OBSESSION | Overriding preoccupation like Toad's love of cars in The Wind In The Willows |
| CANOPUS | Brightest star in Carina; fictional home of Arrakis in Frank Herbert's Dune (7) |
| GOTHAMCITY | Fictional home of Batman in various comic book stories since 1940 (6,4) |
| ECCLES | Number 7 on this street was the fictional home of Leopold Bloom |
| ACRE | Hundred - - - Wood, fictional home of Winnie-the-Pooh (4) |
| MEAD | St Mary -; fictional home of Agatha Christie's character Jane Marple (4) |
| HORDERN | Teacher turned actor remembered for Shakespearean roles, parts in many films and as the voice of Paddington Bear and of Badger in The Wind in the Willows (7) |
| TARA | Fictional home of Gerald O'Hara |
| NARNIA | Fictional home of Tumnus |
| GOTHAM | Fictional home of comic-book hero Batman, ... City |
| WALLABY | 62 West ____ Street, fictional home in Wigan of the claymation duo Wallace and Gromit (7) |
| TOAD | In The Wind In The Willows he sang, of himself, "The clever men at Oxford; Know all that there is to be knowed; But they none of them know one half as much; As intelligent Mr ..." |
| BOATING | In The Wind in the Willows, one of Ratty's favourite pastimes (7) |
| MOLE | Ratty and Badger's companion in The Wind in the Willows whose friend Toad resides in a hall reputed to have been modelled on Mapledurham House, Berkshire (4) |
| CLOTHEDHOPPER | The well-dressed Mr. Toad in "The Wind in the Willows"? |
| OTTER | In The Wind In The Willows, what kind of animal is Portly? (5) |
