| SILK | Series in which Maxine Peake played a barrister (4) |
| ANNE | ITV series for which Maxine Peake was a 2023 British Academy Television Awards Leading Actress nominee (4) |
| RAKE | Richard Roxburgh played a barrister in this |
| BISEXUAL | The -, Channel 4 comedy-drama series starring Desiree Akhavan and Maxine Peake (8) |
| RULESOFTHEGAME | 2022 BBC series with Maxine Peake (5,2,3,4) |
| TWINKLE | Younger canteen worker played by Maxine Peake in Dinnerladies (7) |
| AMAL | George Clooney's wife, a barrister (4) |
| EARLYDOORS | 2000s British sitcom starring John Henshaw and Maxine Peake (5,5) |
| SOLR | Assoc. of a barrister |
| BRIEF | Summary of a client's case prepared by a solicitor for a barrister to follow in court (5) |
| ADVOCATE | Word for a barrister or a solicitor from which a yellow custardy Dutch "lawyer's drink" derived its name (8) |
| LAWYER | A professional who could be a barrister or a solicitor (6) |
| GOTOTHEBAR | Become a barrister in order to buy a drink? (2,2,3,3) |
| RECORDER | A barrister serving as a part-time judge in England and Wales |
| TITUSALONE | Novel by Mervyn Peake published in 1959 and the fourth in his Gormenghast series (5,5) |
| GORMENGHAST | Castle that features in a series of post-war novels by Mervyn Peake (11) |
| TITUS | 1946 Mervyn Peake novel which is the first in the Gormenghast series, _ Groan (5) |
| TESSA | Ms Peake-Jones, actress who played Raquel in Only Fools and Horses (5) |
| RAQUEL | Part played by Tessa Peake-Jones in 'Only Fools and Horses' (6) |
| MAXINE | - - - Peake, actress who played Twinkle in Dinnerladies (6) |
