| CLEARER | Le Carre novel, more visible (7) |
| FADESIN | Grows gradually more visible, as a movie scene |
| WAXED | Grew more visible, as the moon |
| MANAGER | The Night - - -, John le Carre novel televised in 2016 (7) |
| SOLDIER | Tinker Tailor ___ Spy, le Carre novel (7) |
| SMILEYS | ___ People, John le Carre novel (7) |
| GERMANY | John le Carre novel set in 10 (1,5,4,2,7) |
| THECOLD | John Le Carre novel, The Spy Who Came In From ... (3,4) |
| COLDWAR | Backdrop of many John le Carre novels |
| TOWNIN | John le Carre novel set in 10 (1,5,4,2,7) |
| ASMALL | John le Carre novel set in 10 (1,5,4,2,7) |
| APERFECTSPY | 1986 John le Carre novel telling the life story of double agent Magnus Pym (1,7,3) |
| SMILEYSPEOPLE | Which 1982 television adaptation of a John Le Carre novel starred Alec Guinness? (7,6) |
| ASMALLTOWNINGERMANY | Le Carre novel set in Bonn (1,5,4,2,7) |
| TAILOR | Tinker ___ Soldier Spy, John le Carre novel (6) |
| TINKERTAILORSOLDIERSPY | John le Carre novel |
| RUSSIA | John le Carre novel, The ... House |
| SPY | A Perfect ___, John le Carre novel |
| KGBSPY | Enemy in a Le Carre novel |
| NIGHT | The ___ Manager, John le Carre novel (5) |
