| SNOWWHITE | Pantomime character, a beautiful princess (4,5) |
| ALADDIN | Pantomime character, a boy, died at home (7) |
| PIERROT | Pantomime character, a seaside attraction? Rubbish (7) |
| PSYCHEDUP | Beautiful princess with roly-poly dessert: very excited! (7,2) |
| BOOKSHELF | Reserve quiet fictional character, a supporter of literary works |
| AGAMEMNON | Greek character, a bold man born at odds (9) |
| POLLYANNA | Story character, a byword for unstinting optimism |
| URIAHHEEP | Dickens character; a rock band formed in London in 1969 |
| FATHERTED | Sitcom in which Dermot Morgan played the titular character, a clergyman (6,3) |
| UPPERCASE | Such characters a matter for the drug squad? |
| BLIMP | An airship or "sausage-balloon"; a soundproof cover or "barney" for a video camera; or, alluding to David Low's colonel character, a pejorative noun for a pompous, stuffy fellow (5) |
| ACHIEVE | Reach a Greek character, a woman in a garden (7) |
| AGITATED | A contemptible character, a youthful delinquent, is seven |
| DRACULA | A fictional infamous character, a vampire, Vlad the impaler |
| RECAST | Give a beloved character a sex change, say |
| MINOTAUR | Juvenile invites a Greek character-a bull headed monster (8) |
| ALIBABA | Fabled character - a politician and a graduate |
| APHIS | A Greek character's a pest |
| THUMB | Tom -; folklore character; a type of bit for a horse; or, another name for bird's-foot trefoil (5) |
| MIDDLEGROUND | The ____, a 1980 novel by Margaret Drabble, its central character a journalist called Kate Armstrong |
