| WRIGHT | Peter - Ml5 scientific officer; author with Paul Greengrass of 1987 autobiography Spycatcher (6) |
| INTELLIGENCEOFFICER | Ml5 or MI6 employee, eg (12,7) |
| ASSATASHAKUR | Revolutionary who wrote, in her 1987 autobiography, "Love is an acid / that eats away bars" |
| HILARY | British author with hair mentally out of place (6,6) |
| MANTEL | British author with hair mentally out of place (6,6) |
| BLOODYSUNDAY | Paul Greengrass film that won the World Cinema Audience Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival (6,6) |
| THEBOURNE | 2007 Paul Greengrass film starring Matt Damon (3,6,9) |
| ULTIMATUM | 2007 Paul Greengrass film starring Matt Damon (3,6,9) |
| LIVELY | Penelope ___, author of 1987 Booker Prize-winning novel Moon Tiger (6) |
| ISHTAR | 1987 Warren Beatty flop of 1987 (A SHIRT anagram) (6) |
| ENGELS | Friedrich ?, co-author with Karl Marx of The Communist Manifesto (6) |
| GREENE | Author with endless dynamism about to pen end of tale (6) |
| YAATNA | Shekhar Suman and Supriya Pathak's murder mystery of 1987 (6) |
| LELAND | David, director of 1987 film Wish You Were Here (6) |
| HARRIS | Trio albums of 1987 and 1999 are collaborations by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and who? (7,6) |
| ASIMOV | Sci-fi author with the Three Laws of Robotics |
| SWAYZE | Star of 1987 film Dirty Dancing, Patrick ------ (6) |
| BARKER | Clive, director of 1987 film Hellraiser (6) |
| EMPIRE | Gore Vidal historical novel of 1987 (6) |
| SHAWMS | Bearded author with script showing old instruments (6) |
