| AUGUSTA | Lady -- Bracknell, character in Oscar Wilde's play 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (7) |
| LADYBRACKNELL | Overbearing character in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest (4,9) |
| EARNEST | What completes the title of the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being ___? (7) |
| HANDBAG | "A ___?!" - line spoken by Lady Bracknell in The Importance Of Being Earnest (1895) |
| KARENDUNBAR | She is to play Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde's play at the Perth Theatre (5,6) |
| OFBEING | Oscar Wilde play, The Importance...Earnest (2,5) |
| ERNEST | ___ Worthing (character in Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest") |
| BRACKNELL | Lady -; Gwendolen's mother in Oscar Wilde's comic play The Importance of Being Earnest (9) |
| IDEAL | An excellent or perfect example of something (like the husband in Oscar Wilde's play) |
| IMPORTANCE | The - of Being Earnest; Oscar Wilde's play with characters including Algernon Moncrieff, Gwendolen Fairfax and Lady Bracknell (10) |
| FAN | Lady Windermere carelessly lost this item in Oscar Wilde's play |
| MISSPRISM | Governess in the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being Earnest (4,5) |
| DARLINGTON | Lord ___"; character in Oscar Wildes Lady Windermeres Fan (10) |
| DORIAN | First name of the chief character in Oscar Wilde's novel (6) |
| EVANS | Actress Dame Edith ... took the role of Lady Bracknell in The Importance Of Being Earnest |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish writer and aesthete who wrote the play The Importance Of Being Earnest (5,5) |
| OSCAR | Wilde. Irish writer and wit who wrote the play The Importance Of Being Earnest (5) |
| EDITHEVANS | Actress who played Lady Bracknell in the 1952 film The Importance of Being Earnest (5,5) |
| GRAY | Dorian -; principal character in Oscar Wilde's only novel (4) |
| DORIANGRAY | Which character in Oscar Wilde's novel never ages, while his portrait image gets progressively older? (6,4) |
