| CHATTERLEY | Lady -; protagonist in a novel by D. H. Lawrence that was banned for a time (10) |
| HEROINE | Female protagonist in a novel or movie (7) |
| ELIZA | My Fair Lady protagonist, ... Doolittle (5) |
| LESBOYD | Wests forward banned for a year for breaking Daryl Brohman's jaw in 1983 Origin (3,4) |
| DQED | Banned for a rules infraction, informally |
| SPYCATCHER | 1987 memoir by Peter Wright, subtitled The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer, that was banned in England (10) |
| THERAINBOW | Controversial 1915 novel by D.H. Lawrence featuring the Brangwen family (3,7) |
| DHLAWRENCE | His "Lady Chatterley's Lover" was banned in the U.S. until 1959 |
| AGOSTINO | 1941 novel by Alberto Moravia that was banned by the Italian Fascist regime |
| CHANDILA | First bowler to take a hat trick for the Royals in the IPL, his career ended when he was banned for spot fixing |
| URINE | Preston Lodge forward Darren Eales was banned for eight years after a - - - test found traces of Stanozolol (5) |
| ABSINTHE | What potent alcoholic drink with a wormwood content was banned for many years? (8) |
| DICE | Cubes with pips for board/gambling games or for making decisions by the protagonist in a Luke Rhinehart novel (4) |
| CHATGPT | Tool that was banned, and then unbanned, in N.Y.C. public schools |
| HERO | A real or fictional man of distinguished bravery; a demigod; a champion; or, the leading male actor or protagonist in a film or novel (4) |
| DIRTYWORK | Hanky-panky in book that was banned? (5,4) |
| DDT | Pesticide that was banned in 1972: Abbr. |
| PLATOON | Best Picture winner that was banned in Vietnam |
| WAPO | Newspaper that was banned from endorsing Kamala, for short |
| BORAT | 2006 film that was banned in most of the Arab world |
