| PRYOR | One of US comedian Richard ____'s best-known characters was Mudbone, a wino philosopher from Tupelo, Mississippi |
| OSMAN | Richard ___'s House of Games |
| LUCKY | ___ Santangelo one of English novelist Jackie Collins' best-known characters |
| FELLOW | A bloke of well known characters |
| SIDESHOW | For the less well-known characters performing in Chips, for example, and Hawaii Five-O, for instance (8) |
| ROEG | Don't Look Now (1973) was one of director Nicolas ____'s best-known films |
| THOREAU | Walden; or, Life in the Woods was the original title of Henry David ____'s best-known book |
| WEDEKIND | German dramatist Frank ____'s best-known plays were the basis of Alban Berg's opera Lulu |
| BEARDSLEY | English illustrator Aubrey ____'s best-known work was in black ink |
| RENDELL | Ruth ____'s best-known fictional creation was Inspector Wexford |
| ISLANDOFLAGRANDEJATTE | A Sunday Afternoon on the ____ is one of Seurat’s best-known paintings |
| MASSINBMINOR | One of Bach’s best-known choral works, completed about a year before his death |
| BOTTICELLI | The Birth of Venus is one of ____’s best-known paintings |
| SCHWARZKOPF | Soprano Elisabeth ____’s best-known roles were in operas by Mozart and Richard Strauss |
| SEINFELD | One of his characters was a fiend, Les (8) |
| MCBAIN | Ed ____ was novelist Evan Hunter’s best-known pseudonym |
| MCKERN | Australian actor Leo ____’s best-known role was Horace Rumpole |
| OGHAM | What ancient British and Irish alphabet of 20 characters was formed by parallel strokes on or across a line? (5) |
| DIOGENES | Greek philosopher from Sinope, in modern-day Turkey, a proponent of the ideological school of Cynicism (8) |
| DISCUS | Object depicted as being thrown in Athenian sculptor Myron’s best known work |
