| MOORCOCK | Michael ___, author of the novels Gloriana and The Final Programme (8) |
| JULIEEGE | Norwegian actress and model who played Miss Dazzle in 1973 sci-fi film The Final Programme |
| ONDAATJE | Michael _____ (Author of The English Patient) |
| REASSESS | Once again fix a value re a vessel and the final vessel (8) |
| CRICHTON | Michael _, author and screenwriter who wrote Jurassic Park (1993) |
| EPILOGUE | Record I record, heard in final programme (8) |
| STLEGER | One of the five classics of the flat-racing season and the final leg of the English Triple Crown (2,5) |
| FRAYN | Michael ___, author of the stage plays Alphabetical Order and Noises Off (5) |
| WOLFF | Michael ___, author of "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" |
| DOBBS | Life peer, novelist and politician who penned the Francis Urquhart trilogy comprising House of Cards, To Play the King and The Final Cut (5) |
| SCENERY | The new screen and the final bit of drapery makes the stage backdrop (7) |
| ENDE | Michael ___ (author of "The Neverending Story") |
| ROSEN | Michael ___, author of We're Going on a Bear Hunt (1989) (5) |
| NEOLITHIC | Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age (9) |
| BET | 2016 US comedy and the final film of wrestler Roddy Piper, The - (3) |
| PALIN | Michael ___, writer and star of 1982 film comedy The Missionary (5) |
| HOUSEOFCARDS | What (The ___ ___ ___) completes a trilogy with To Play the King and The Final Cut? (5,2,5) |
| SEMI | Tournament game between the quarters and the final |
| EUROPE | Swedish band with the 1980s hits "Carrie" and "The Final Countdown" |
| FAERIES | Creatures of which Gloriana is the "Queene," in a work by Edmund Spenser |
