| EPISODES | Instalments in a serialised program or story (8) |
| EPISODE | Section of a serialised program (7) |
| ICON | A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface (4) |
| THRILLER | A sensational or exciting film, play or story (8) |
| WHODUNIT | A play or story in which the murderer's identity is withheld until the end (8) |
| FIRMWARE | In electronics and computing, fixed programs or data structures that internally control various electronic devices |
| PROLOGUE | Introduction to a play or story (8) |
| BREAKING | ___ Dawn, fourth instalment in the Twilight series of novels (8) |
| NARRATOR | Ran off with traitor or story-teller (8) |
| RAMBLING | Long-winded or drawn-out trail (or story) (9) |
| IMAGE | A representation in art/sculpture of the external form of a person or object; a mental picture evoked by a poem or story; or, a visible impression obtained by a camera (5) |
| GUESTED | Appeared as a guest on a television or radio program or other form of entertainment (7) |
| FEATURE | A prominent article or story in a newspaper; or, the main full-length film in a cinema's programme (7) |
| ACTION | The collective events forming the plot of a drama, film, play or story; the mechanism of a piano or a watch; or, any deed, gesture or thing done (6) |
| BUGS | What are errors in a computer program or system? (4) |
| THEBONFIREOFTHEVANITIES | 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe, originally published in instalments in Rolling Stone |
| COLDSTART | The reloading of a program or operating system |
| NEWDEAL | Famous FDR program, or a theme hint |
| DICKENS | His novel Oliver Twist was first published in monthly instalments in the magazine, Bentley's Miscell |
| CURIOSITY | The Old - Shop; one of Charles Dickens' novels originally published in instalments in Master Humphrey's Clock (9) |
