| MEARNS | Lead character of movie achieves location for sunset song (6) |
| PRANKS | Lead character of Punk'd orders practical jokes (6) |
| ALBION | A literary VIP describes lead character of Byron's England in poems (6) |
| GIBBON | Author who wrote A Scots Quair - a trilogy consisting of Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite (6 |
| SILENT | Like lead character of knight, say, in old film |
| KINRADDIE | In place of Sunset Song, US gun lobby invested in young child (9) |
| GLORIASWANSON | Best Actress Oscar nominee for Sunset Boulevard (6,7) |
| ARTHURFONZARELLI | Lead character of the sitcom Happy Days |
| WATERLOO | _____ Sunset, song by The Kinks that was released in 1967 (8) |
| TROUGHTON | Patrick -, actor who replaced William Hartnell in 1966 as the lead character of BBC TV series Doctor Who (9) |
| TOAD | Lead character of a 1929 A. A. Milne play based on a book by Kenneth Grahame (4) |
| JACKBAUER | Lead character of "24" |
| ERICH | Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for Sunset Boulevard (5,3,8) |
| VONSTROHEIM | Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for Sunset Boulevard (5,3,8) |
| HEARN | 1995 Tony winner George for Sunset Boulevard |
| SWANSON | Gloria, Best Actress Oscar nominee for Sunset Boulevard (7) |
| RETREAT | Go back for sunset ceremony (7) |
| OUTER | Lead characters of Oliver Twist rue going out to get Bull's-eye? No, that's wide of the mark (5) |
| AMID | Lead characters of thematic play somewhere within (4) |
| PURPLE | Sounds like a bruising sort of movie (3,6,6) |
