| MRSHUDSON | Housekeeper in the Sherlock Holmes stories (3,6) |
| LESTRADE | Inspector in the Sherlock Holmes stories (8) |
| IRENE | ___ Adler, character in the Sherlock Holmes stories (5) |
| ADLER | Irene -----, character in the Sherlock Holmes stories (5) |
| GERALDINE | Mrs Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes movies, - James (9) |
| ARTHUR | Victorian author who created the Sherlock Holmes stories (6,5,5) |
| CONANDOYLE | Victorian author who created the Sherlock Holmes stories (6,5,5) |
| PAGET | Sidney who illustrated the Sherlock Holmes stories |
| CONAN | Sir Arthur ___ Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories (5) |
| SILVERBLAZE | Stolen racehorse in the Sherlock Holmes story featuring "the curious incident of the dog in the nigh |
| POISOND | Cause of death in the Sherlock Holmes novel "The Sign of the Four" |
| LONDONEYE | It's left of the title in the "Sherlock" opening credits |
| UPPERHAND | The - -; 1990s sitcom based on a footballer who becomes a housekeeper in the Oxfordshire countryside (5,4) |
| IRENEADLER | Character featured in the Sherlock Holmes story A Scandal in Bohemia (5,5) |
| INSPECTOR | Lestrade of Sherlock Holmes stories, e.g. |
| DANVERS | Surname of the housekeeper in the novel Rebecca (7) |
| WANTTOMAKEABED | Question for the hotel housekeeper in the morning? |
| ROSIETHEROBOTMAID | Automated housekeeper in the cartoon series The Jetsons |
| FINAL | & 16A The -, Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Strand Magazine in December 1893 (5,7) |
| VINEY | Mrs _ _ _ _ _ Three Chimneys housekeeper in The Railway Children (5) |
