| COOLHANDLUKE | Novel by Donn Pearce, published in 1965 (4,4,4) |
| HOTEL | Best-selling Arthur Hailey novel published in 1965 (5) |
| ARIEL | Collection of poems by Sylvia Plath, posthumously published in 1965 |
| MELVYN | Broadcaster and biographer whose first novel was published in 1965, ... Bragg |
| YONDER | _ _ _ _ _ _ Comes The Train - a history of steam engines written by Lance Phillips and published in 1965 (6) |
| OBSCURE | Thomas Hardy novel featuring the character Arabella Donn (4,3,7) |
| JUNETHE | Thomas Hardy novel featuring the character Arabella Donn (4,3,7) |
| JUDETHEOBSCURE | 1895 Thomas Hardy novel featuring the character Arabella Donn |
| MESSERMARCOPOLO | Untidy person to spoil company game in Donn Byrne's book (6,5,4) |
| YODEL | Sing like Canadian Donn Reynolds |
| JUDEFAWLEY | Thomas Hardy character who marries Arabella Donn (4,6) |
| ADS | Commercials Clues Donn |
| DANIELLE | First name of Ms Harold who played Lola Pearce in EastEnders and took part in Celebrity MasterChef in 2024 (8) |
| MIDNIGHT | Tom's - Garden; fantasy novel for children by Philippa Pearce (8) |
| TOMS | - Midnight Garden; novel for children by Philippa Pearce (4) |
| LOLA | Character played by Danielle Harold in Eastenders, ---- Pearce (4) |
| MINNOWONTHESAY | Children's novel by Philippa Pearce (6,2,3,3) |
| YOUNG | Character played by Guy Pearce in Neighbours, Mike - (5) |
| ELEVEN | EastEnders' Lola Pearce first appeared in Walford in the year twenty ___ (6) |
| JACK | - Irish, Australian detective character in the Peter Temple novels, played on TV by Guy Pearce (4) |
