| CHARACTERS | Persons in a novel, play (10) |
| VILLAIN | The main evil character and antagonist to the hero in a novel, play, film, etc (7) |
| CHARACTER | Person in a novel (9) |
| ANTIHERO | A central character in a novel, play or film who is not morally good (8) |
| MYSTERY | From the Greek for "close the eyes", an ancient secret ceremony witnessed only by the initiated; an old word for a craft or a trade guild; an enigmatic person or thing; or, a novel, play etc based on |
| ADAPT | _____ a novel/play into a script (as they say). |
| SATIRE | A novel, play, etc in which topical issues are held up to scorn by means of ridicule and irony (6) |
| STORYLINE | Plot of a novel, play or film (9) |
| AFFRAY | Law: a fight, noisy quarrel or disturbance by persons in a public place (6) |
| MORTALS | Persons, in a way (7) |
| GROUP | Assemblage of persons in a cluster |
| SERFS | Which term describes persons in a condition of servitude (5) |
| CARER | One who looks after elderly persons in a home (5) |
| STATUS | The relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society (6) |
| SPOUSE | One of the two persons in a marriage or civil partnership (6) |
| ANIMUS | This person's in a group of students showing hatred (6) |
| ATYPICAL | Novel play, Act 1 being somewhat unexpected? (8) |
| PERSONAE | Characters of novel, play, etc. |
| BETT | 'Miss Lulu ___' (old novel, play, and film) |
| FLEW | "One ... over the Cuckoo's Nest" (novel, play and film) |
