| BOB | Hoskins of the Long Good Friday |
| RHYS | Hoskins of the Phillies |
| HOSKINS | Which English actor starred in The Long Good Friday and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (7) |
| BOBHOSKINS | Actor whose films include The Long Good Friday and Mona Lisa (3,7) |
| MOWLAM | Who was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland at the time of the Good Friday Agreement? (6) |
| MOMOWLAM | Secretary of State for Northern Ireland who presided over the signing of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (2,6) |
| CROSS | Symbol marked in dough on the top of a fruited spiced bun that is traditionally eaten on Good Friday; or, a stone structure used to indicate the site of a town's market square (5) |
| EGGS | Said to turn to diamonds 100 years after being laid on Good Friday, symbols of birth, life and of spring, used in the tradition of jarping and depicted in chocolate at Easter (4) |
| RUMP | On the back of the remainder of the Long Parliament (4) |
| LONELINESS | The ___ of the Long Distance Runner, 1959 short story by Alan Sillitoe, adapted for a 1962 film of the same name starring Tom Courtenay |
| SILLITOE | Alan -; author of the novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and short story The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (8) |
| ARCHER | Last name of the farming family at the centre of the long-running Radio 4 soap (6) |
| ABS | Target of the puzzle's title, and part of each of the long entries |
| ALANSILLITOE | Author of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner |
| JACKDEMSEYY | Loser of The Battle of the Long Count. (4,7) |
| GENETUNNEY | Winner of The Battle of the Long Count. (4,6) |
| BERTIE | _ _ _ _ _ _ Ahern, Irish Taoiseach at the time of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 (6) |
| NIGHT | - of the Long Knives; mass killing of the Sturmabteilung (Brownshirts) on Hitler's orders in 1934 (5 |
| KNIVES | Night of the Long -; massacre of the Brownshirts on Hitler's orders in 1934A (6) |
| MALL | The ___ is the name of the long, wide road which leads to Buckingham Palace. (4) |
