| WILLANS | Geoffrey -, co-creator with Ronald Searle of Nigel Molesworth (7) |
| LYTHGOE | Surname of Nigel, a judge on Popstars in 2000 and the US version of So You Think You Can Dance between 2005-19 (7) |
| CRISTIE | Surgeon alter ego of Nigel Harman, currently taking a break from Casualty (3,7) |
| SADIRON | Depressed individual with Ronald using household implement (7) |
| ATALEOF | Dickens' book of the French Revolution, filmed in 1935 with Ronald Colman in the lead, ... Two Citie |
| LATERON | Departed with Ronald some time after |
| SARALEE | A Searle brand that nobody doesn't like |
| RONALDS | Searle and Reagan |
| DOWNWITH | The first of Ronald Searle's 'Nigel Molesworth' books (4,4,5) |
| SKOOL | The first of Ronald Searle's 'Nigel Molesworth' books (4,4,5) |
| NIGELMOLESWORTH | Fictional schoolboy of St Custard's co-created by Ronald Searle (5,10) |
| MATTSTONE | "South Park" co-creator with Trey Parker, born May 26, 1971 |
| STTRINIANS | Cartoonist Ronald Searle created this fictional boarding school for upper-class feral girls (2,7'1) |
| TRINIANS | St ____, boarding school created by cartoonist Ronald Searle (8) |
| BANG | “Hary mugwort [...] had been put into deten by sigismund the mad maths master for saing ____ whenever a perpendicular was droped” (Nigel Molesworth) |
| PUNCH | Former British magazine whose cartoonists or illustrators included Quentin Blake, Arthur Rackham, Gerald Scarfe, Ronald Searle, E. H. Shepard and Norman The lwell (5) |
| SACHA | First name of Who is America? creator with South African tea (5) |
| MAX | Surgeon alter ego of Nigel Harman, currently taking a break from Casualty (3,7) |
| DILIGENT | Painstaking work of Nigel in department with IT (8) |
| OBERON | Be in love with Ronald, king of fairyland (6) |
