| ARMSANDTHEMAN | George Bernard Shaw comedy set during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War (4,3,3,3) |
| MASH | 1970s CBS comedy set during the Korean War |
| CANDIDA | George Bernard Shaw comedy |
| ARMS | Opening word of a Bernard Shaw comedy |
| BRITTASEMPIRE | Chris Barrie's comedy, set in a leisure centre, The ... ... (7,6) |
| NEWYORKMINUTE | Olsen twins teen comedy set in the Big Apple |
| KOKO | The Lord High Executioner of Titipu in the 1885 Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Mikado (2-2) |
| LION | "Androcles and the ___" (Shaw comedy) |
| PETO | John Frederick, US artist whose works include the 1885 oil The Poor Man's Store (4) |
| ITALIANATE | The ornate European architectural style of the 1885 building of Petersham station (10) |
| DAIMLER | Although it had four wheels, the 1885 ____ Reitwagen is recognised as the first motorcycle |
| DEAN | Author of the 1885 novel The Rise Of Silas Lapham, William _ Howells (4) |
| BISON | Scarcity of this major food source for the Metis in Canada was one reason for the 1885 North-West Rebellion |
| SUPERMANANDMAN | G. B. Shaw comedy |
| CANDID | Frank in Shaw comedy, abridged (6) |
| MIKADO | "The ...", 1885 operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan (6) |
| HERITAGELISTED | The 1885 building of Petersham station was ........ ...... for its architectural value in 1999 (8,6) |
| GEORGESDUROY | Anti-hero of the 1885 Maupassant novel Bel-Ami (7,5) |
| OTTO | First name of the 1885-1973 German-born conductor Klemperer (4) |
| RIDER | H _ Haggard, author of the 1885 adventure novel King Solomon's Mines (5) |
