| SNOOTY | Lord _; character who appeared in the Beano (6) |
| MENACE | Dennis The ____ , character who first appeared in The Beano comic in 1951 (6) |
| MINNIE | ____ The Minx, female rebel who first appeared in The Beano comic in 1953 (6) |
| DODGER | Roger the -; one of the characters in The Beano (6) |
| DENNIS | Long-running character in The Beano who has a dog called Gnasher (6) |
| ANNUAL | One of the flowery types in The Beano (6) |
| ASRIEL | Lord ___, character in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy played by Daniel Craig in the film The Golden Compass |
| DENNISTHEMENACE | Comic-strip character who first appeared in the Beano in 1951 (6,3,6) |
| ROGERTHEDODGER | Character who first appeared in The Beano in 1953 (5,3,6) |
| BILLYWHIZZ | Speedy British comic character who first appeared in The Beano in 1964 |
| BILLY | Speedy British comic character who first appeared in The Beano in 1964 |
| WHIZZ | Speedy British comic character who first appeared in The Beano in 1964 (5,5) |
| BARLOW | Peter _, character who left Coronation Street last year (6) |
| GALORE | Pussy ___ (character who says to James Bond, "You can turn off the charm. I'm immune") |
| BIFFO | Which cartoon bear appeared in The Beano? (5) |
| DESPERATEDAN | Cow pie-eating character who appeared in The Dandy from its first issue in 1937 to its final issue in 2013 |
| COMICS | The Beano and The Dandy, eg (6) |
| MICKEYMOUSE | Walt Disney cartoon character who appeared in the 1928 film Steamboat Willie (6,5) |
| FALSTAFF | Shakespearian comic character who appeared in four of the bard's plays (8) |
| COMMIX | Word for "blend together" that sounds like the Beano, Dandy and the like (6) |