| QUIZSHOW | Film which tells the true story of the scandal of the fifties TV game show Twenty One (4,4) |
| TAILGATE | Closely follow the scandal of the Three Blind Mice? (8) |
| PLEB | Insult at the heart of the scandal that led to Andrew Mitchell's resignation from government in 2012 (4) |
| GERITOL | Tonic that sponsored the quiz show Twenty-One |
| SGTBILKO | 1996 comedy film starring Steve Martin, an adaptation of the 1950s TV series The Phil Silvers Show (3,5) |
| SCOREBOARD | What may show twenty with chap bagging a run? (10) |
| DANDURYEA | Star of the 1950s TV series "China Smith" |
| NORMARAE | 1979 film. based on the true story of Crystal Lee Sutton. for which Sally Field won a Best Actress Oscar (5,3) |
| SWANLAKE | Ballet which tells the story of Odette (4,4) |
| IRANGATE | Political scandal of the Reagan era |
| BASTARD | "The ___ Brigade" (2019 book subtitled "The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb") |
| EXPENSES | Name given to the scandal that overtook Westminster in 2009 (8) |
| CAPTAINPHILLIPS | 2013 film inspired by the true story of the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking (7,8) |
| COOLRUNNINGS | 1993 film starring John Candy loosely based on the true story of the Jamaica national bobsleigh team |
| ABNEGATE | Deny scandal of sailor from Tyneside? (8) |
| INFECTED | Scandal of clot, British, indeed disastrous |
| MENOFHONOR | 2000 film starring Cuba Gooding Jr. which tells the story of the first African American Master Diver in the US Navy (3,2,5) |
| OLDMANAND | The ___ the Sea short novel by Ernest Hemingway which tells the story of a Cuban fisherman: 3 wds. |
| CASTLE | The ___ of Otranto gothic novel by Horace Walpole which tells the story of Manfred and his family |
| DORIAN | The Picture of ___ Gray gothic novel by Oscar Wilde which tells the story of a man and his unusual portrait |
