| GONZO | Relating to journalism of an exaggerated and fictionalised style (5) |
| MWAH | Sound of an exaggerated kiss |
| ANNIE | 1946 musical with songs and lyrics by Irving Berlin, a fictionalised version of the life of an American frontier character (5,3,4,3) |
| WAUGH | Author of Brideshead Revisited who fictionalised his career in the Royal Marines and the Royal Horse Guards in the Sword of Honour trilogy (5) |
| SMITH | Will _, actor who played a fictionalised version of himself in The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air (5) |
| SLIGO | Irish town fictionalised as Ballah in the works of W. B. Yeats (5) |
| TWANG | What describes an exaggerated nasality in speech, distinctive to an area? (5) |
| UNDUE | Exaggerated and excessive |
| CAMPY | Exaggerated and theatrical |
| TRENT | Midlands river fictionalised as the Floss in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860) (5) |
| FARCE | An exaggerated comedy |
| GETYOURGUN | 1946 musical with songs and lyrics by Irving Berlin, a fictionalised version of the life of an American frontier character (5,3,4,3) |
| INFLATED | Exaggerated (and liable to 5?) (8) |
| FLEETSTREET | The quick road to journalism? (5,6) |
| AMADEUS | Peter Shaffer play, a fictionalised account of the lives of Mozart and Salieri |
| CAMP | Deliberately exaggerated and theatrical in style (4) |
| DEPRESS | Discourage editor returning to journalism (7) |
| BORIS | And 3 Down Tenth official World Chess Champion (1969-72), fictionalised as Anatoly Sergievsky in 1986 Andersson, Ulvaeus and Rice musical Chess (5,7) |
| CRANFORD | Eponymous setting of an 1853 novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, a fictionalised version of Knutsford in Cheshire (8) |
| CYRANODEBERGERAC | French writer and dramatist, fictionalised in an 1897 play by Edmond Rostand |
