| BURGESS | Kubrick's divisive A Clockwork Orange was based on his novel |
| AMBLER | "Topkapi" was based on his novel |
| MAYBEBABY | 2000 film starring Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson, written and directed by Ben Elton, based on his novel Inconceivable |
| TEMS | Artist with the 2021 EP "If Orange Was a Place" |
| DEFOLIATE | What Agent Orange was employed to do |
| CLARKE | Kubrick's sci-fi epic was based on his short story |
| OHER | NFL's Michael ___ (The Blind Side was based on his story) |
| AJCRONIN | TV series Dr Finlay's Casebook was based on his work (1,1,6) |
| RUNYON | Damon ..., Guys and Dolls musical was based on his writings |
| TERRESTRIAL | E.T. the Extra-___ 1982 sci-fi film directed by Steven Spielberg starring Peter Coyote which was based on his imaginary friend |
| COLOUR | Property or quality intrinsic to light described in a theory by Isaac Newton based on his observations of a prism (6) |
| CHESTERTON | Author of stories based on his character Father Brown, who he describes as having "a face as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling" (10) |
| PENROSE | Mathematician, theoretical physicist and designer of an aperiodic tiling system based on his work with black holes, whose father, Lionel, was a chess problemist (7) |
| MAGIC | 1978 Richard Attenborough horror film with a screenplay by William Goldman, based on his own novel |
| LARRYMCMURTRY | A movie based on his book won the Best Picture Oscar in 1983 |
| MICHAELONDAATJE | A movie based on his book won the Best Picture Oscar in 1996 |
| ROOTS | Novel by Alex Haley based on his character Kunta Kinte (5) |
| RURAL | - Rides; William Cobbett's book based on his travels on horseback (5) |
| HECTORBERLIOZ | French composer of Symphonie fantastique a work based on his unrequited love: 2 wds. |
| ROWLEY | Old ____, a nickname of King Charles II based on his horse (6) |
