| BRACKNELL | Lady ---, aunt of Algernon Moncrieff in Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest (9) |
| DENISON | Michael ?, actor who played Algernon Moncrieff in 1952 film comedy The Importance of Being Earnest |
| ERNEST | ___ Worthing (character in Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest") |
| EARNEST | Michael Redgrave played the lead in Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being ... |
| IMPORTANCE | The - of Being Earnest; Oscar Wilde's play with characters including Algernon Moncrieff, Gwendolen Fairfax and Lady Bracknell (10) |
| SWINBURNE | Algernon Charles - - -, English writer who invented the roundel form of verse (9) |
| ALGERNON | Bachelor in Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" |
| LABANIMAL | The title character of "Flowers for Algernon," e.g. |
| FARCE | Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest," e.g. |
| LADYBRACKNELL | Algy's aunt in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance Of Being Earnest (4,9) |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish playwright who created the character Algernon Moncrieff (5,5) |
| BEING | Wilde's "The Importance of ___ Earnest" |
| AUGUSTA | Lady -- Bracknell, character in Oscar Wilde's play 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (7) |
| NOVELETTE | "Flowers for Algernon," e.g. |
| ALGY | Nickname of Algernon Montgomery Lacey, flying companion of Biggles, in stories by W E Johns (4) |
| THEIMPORTANCE | Michael Redgrave played the lead in Oscar Wilde's ... Of Being Earnest (3,10) |
| DORIANGRAY | Oscar Wilde's The Picture Of ... (6,4) |
| EROS | Oscar Wilde's "The Garden of ___" |
| DORIAN | Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of ___ Gray" |
| LARGE | The big head of Algernon has been turned (5) |
