| SUDDENLYLASTSUMMER | One-act play by Tennessee Williams that opened off Broadway in January 1958, as part of a double bill with Something Unspoken |
| CATONAHOTTINROOF | Play by Tennessee Williams that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955 (3,2,1,3,3,4) |
| SPUTNIK | First artificial Earth satellite, orbiting from October 1957 to January 1958 (7) |
| AUTODAFE | 1941 one-act play by Tennessee Williams (4-2-2) |
| YOGIBEAR | Hanna-Barbera cartoon character who made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in The Huckleberry Hound Show |
| STRAWHAT | Such as succeeds theatre etc given a turn off-Broadway in June? (5-3) |
| HAIR | Rock musical first performed off-Broadway in 1967 (4) |
| PEACESIGN | Symbol created in 1958 as the logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament |
| FRENCH | Actress and comedienne who formed part of a double act with Jennifer Saunders, later starring as Geraldine Granger in The Vicar of Dibley and Caroline Arless in Lark Rise to Candleford (6) |
| ONWENLOCKEDGE | A song cycle by Ralph Vaughan Williams that consists of settings of poems by A.E. Housman (2,7,4) |
| RONNIECORBETT | Comedian, originally part of a double act, who starred in the sitcoms Now Look Here in the 1970s and Sorry in the 1980s (6,7) |
| ARMCHAIR | Piece of furniture owned by Shane Williams that has shirts from his career sewn in - it was made by a friend (8) |
| MADAME | & 24A 1900 one-act play by David Belasco subtitled A Tragedy of Japan (6,9) |
| ENDGAME | 1957 one-act play by Samuel Beckett originally written in French as Fin de partie (7) |
| SEPARATETABLES | A pair of one-act plays by Terence Rattigan, both set in the same Bournemouth hotel |
| WISE | Ernie -; Yorkshire-born entertainer and comedian remembered as part of a double act with Eric Morecambe (4) |
| BMOVIE | A low-budget film of inferior quality, originally the less publicised part of a double feature (1-5) |
| THEDOCKBRIEF | A 1958 one-act play by John Mortimer (3,4,5) |
| BUTTERFLY | 1900 one act play by David Belasco subtitled A Tragedy of Japan (9) |
| ASLIGHTACHE | One-act play by Harold Pinter first staged and published in 1961 (1,6,4) |
