| NC | Location of the fictional Mayberry: abbr. |
| MAINE | Location of the fictional town Horseshoe Bay on The CW's "Nancy Drew" |
| UTICA | Upstate New York city and a branch location of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company |
| RFD | Mayberry abbr. |
| SUTCLIFF | Author of historical novels charting the lives of the fictional Aquila family in Roman Britain including The Eagle of the Ninth and The Silver Branch (8) |
| LONGFELLOW | Poet who wrote of the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha in The Song of Hiawatha (10) |
| SWIFT | With pen names including the Drapier, Isaac Bickerstaff and Simon Wagstaff Esq, a dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, who chronicled the four voyages of the fictional surgeon and sea captain Lemue |
| SNOWY | English name of the fictional fox terrier in The Adventures of Tintin by Herge (5) |
| USS | Name of the fictional flagship of the Federation, ___ Enterprise (1,1,1) |
| ALEXHALEY | Author of the fictional saga Roots and The Autobiography Of Malcolm X (4,5) |
| CRAWLEY | Surname of the fictional Earl of Grantham and his family in the TV and film drama Downton Abbey (7) |
| STAVRO | Middle name of the fictional supervillain Blofeld in the James Bond series of novels and films |
| UNCLEFESTER | Member of the fictional Addams Family played by Jackie Coogan in the original TV series and by Christopher Lloyd in the two films |
| REVOLVER | Short-lived 1978 TV music series in which Peter Cook played the manager of the fictional ballroom where the show supposedly took place |
| THESAINT | Nickname of the fictional hero Simon Templar, created by British-Chinese author Leslie Charteris in the 1928 novel Meet the Tiger (3,5) |
| CHARLTON | Surname of the fictional tax inspector, Cedric, in H E Bates's novella The Darling Buds of May (8) |
| MISSMARPLE | Elderly spinster who is the most famous resident of the fictional village of St Mary Mead (4,6) |
| ECO | Creator of the fictional monk William of Baskerville |
| GARP | Author of the fictional novella "The Pension Grillparzer" |
| ADAMA | Who is the commander of the fictional Battlestar Galactica? (5) |
