| MRMOTO | Secret agent created by a 1938 Pulitzer winner |
| ZATURENSKA | Marya ?, 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner for volume Cold Morning Sky |
| MOTO | Secret agent created by John P. Marquand |
| SMILEY | George, fictional British secret agent created by late novelist John le Carre (6) |
| ASHENDEN | Secret agent created by W. Somerset Maugham in stories published in 1927 (8) |
| ALEXCROSS | Psychologist and former FBI agent created by James Patterson |
| PENDERGAST | Aloysius --, special agent created by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (10) |
| ALEXRIDER | Young MI6 agent created by Anthony Horowitz (4,5) |
| EVEPOLASTRI | Fictional British intelligence agent, created by Luke Jennings, featured in the 2018 novel Codename Villanelle (3,8) |
| SYNDICS | Business agents created by Cindy confused and sheltering in ship ..... (7) |
| LASSIE | Fictional collie created in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight |
| HEATH | Young Tories leader Edward ... led a protest vote against his own party in a 1938 Oxford by-election |
| SHIPOFTHELINE | "A ... ... ... ...", 1938 novel by CS Forester (4,2,3,4) |
| ROBIN | Swashbuckling lead character from a 1938 film who leads a band of merry men (first name only) (5) |
| SNOWWHITE | Princess in a 1938 Disney animated film, voiced by Adriana Caselotti (4,5) |
| PEACEFOROURTIME | Achievement of the Munich Agreement, according to a 1938 speech by British prime minister Neville Chamberlain (5,3,3,4) |
| THESWORDINTHESTONE | 1963 Walt Disney film based on a 1938 novel by T H White (3.5,2,3,5) |
| CBISCUIT | Defeater of War Admiral in a 1938 match race |
| BABY | Title leopard in a 1938 Katharine Hepburn comedy |
| SEVENCENT | Like a 1938 Andrew Jackson stamp |
