| BREAKUP | GH'S PETER AND 48 ACROSS'S WAS THE BEST |
| INTHEHOLE | Having debts ... or where to find a golf ball after 17-, 30-, 37- and 48-Across's starts? |
| THE | Article that can be added to 20-, 25-, 42 and 48-Across's starts to form book titles |
| FLEECE | 7,8,22 across's was compared to the whiteness of 24 down (6) |
| CONSTITUENCY | 15 Across's was Birmingham Ladywood (12) (12) |
| WEDDING | 20 across's was scuppered by Lord Flashheart in series two (7) |
| TWOCITIES | The Charles Dickens novel with the opening line, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of time |
| OFTWO | 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times' is the first line in A Tale ... Cities (2,3) |
| BRIANCLOUGH | Former football manager who claimed "I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one" |
| TIMES | "It was the best of ___, it was the worst of ___" |
| BUDPOWELL | Miles Davis said he was "the best there was of all the bebop piano players" |
| OPENINGSENTENCE | "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...," e.g. |
| SINDY | Doll that was the best selling toy in the UK in 1968 and 1970 (5) |
| TOPBANANA | "But the fruit platter was the best of all. Choice grapes and a ___." |
| CATCH | The tricky one in Joseph Heller's book was, the best there is, the twenty-second one |
| THEYD | John Mayer "I was a killer, was the best ___ ever seen" |
| STEED | 'Through all the wild Border his ___ was the best' (Scott) (5) |
| PHARRELL | Williams whose song "Happy" was the best-selling song in the US in 2014 |
| ALEXANDERS | His ragtime band was the best band in the land, in Irving Berlin's words (9'1) |
| RIVEN | Sequel to the computer game Myst, it was the best-selling game of 1997 |
