| AZIZ | Name of the doctor in the 1924 novel A Passage to India (4) |
| LEAN | Filmmaker who adapted E. M. Forster's 1924 novel A Passage to India to screen (4) |
| CAVES | Fictional tourist attraction that plays a key role in E M Forster's 1924 novel A Passage to India (7,5) |
| MARABAR | Fictional tourist attraction that plays a key role in E M Forster's 1924 novel A Passage to India (7,5) |
| DRAM | A tot of whisky for the doctor in the morning (4) |
| MATT | _ Smith, played the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor in Dr Who (4) |
| HANSCASTROP | Protagonist of the 1924 novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) by German author Thomas Mann (4,7) |
| BEAU | And 9D 1924 novel by P.C. Wren (4) |
| BANE | 1924 novel by Mary Webb whose central character is Prue Sarn (8,4) |
| BUSH | 1924 novel by D H Lawrence and M L Skinner (3,3,2,3,4) |
| FORSTER | English author whose novels A Passage to India, A Room with a View and Howard's End were adapted to film, the latter two noted here by James Ivory (7) |
| ADELA | Miss Quested, character in the novel A Passage to India (5) |
| LIDDELL | Immortalised in the film Chariots Of Fire, the 400m winner in the 1924 Olympics in Paris was Eric .. |
| ADELAQUESTED | Schoolmistress in E.M. Forster's novel A Passage to India (5,7) |
| ERICLIDDELL | British athlete whose win in the 1924 Olympics was celebrated in Chariots of Fire (4,7) |
| INDIA | Judy Davis adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, A Passage to ___ |
| ABRAHAMS | Immortalised in the film Chariots Of Fire, the 100m winner in the 1924 Olympics in Paris was Harold |
| REEBOK | Sportswear company whose shoes were worn by Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell in the 1924 Olympics, later celebrated in the film Chariots of Fire (6) |
| TOOKNOPART | Played the doctor in the Bond film or stayed out of it (4,2,4) |
| OLDLADIES | "The ... ...", 1924 novel by Hugh Walpole (3,6) |
