| RUFUS | Sewell of 'Dark |
| BLACKBEAUTY | Eponymous horse of an 1877 Anna Sewell novel |
| BACKBEAUTY | Anna Sewell work about the loveliness of one's posterior body surface? |
| AURELIO | First name of the police detective played by Rufus Sewell in the TV series Zen, based on novels by Michael Dibdin |
| SQUIREGORDON | Second owner of the titular horse in the 1877 Anna Sewell novel Black Beauty, following Farmer Grey (6,6) |
| ANNA | _ Sewell, author of the 1877 novel Black Beauty (4) |
| BEAUTY | 1877 novel by Anna Sewell (5,6) |
| BLACK | 1877 novel by Anna Sewell (5,6) |
| ANNAS | Sewell and Miller |
| HORSE | Subject embraced by author Sewell? (5) |
| TERRI | ___ Sewell, Alabama's only Black Congresswoman |
| BRIAN | Well-spoken art critic, _ Sewell (5) |
| THESEA | Did this cause waves for Rufus Sewell? (3,3) |
| SPECIALBRANCH | ITV drama series that ran from 1969 to 1974 and featured Fulton Mackay, George Sewell, Patrick Mower and Paul Eddington |
| EEPHUSPITCH | High-arcing toss first attributed to Rip Sewell |
| MELBOURNE | One rumble upset Lord played by Rufus Sewell in TV series Victoria (9) |
| DIPLOMAT | The _, Netflix drama with Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell (8) |
| DUST | Form of dark matter that is integral to the plot of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy of novels |
| FAIRYRING | A circle of dark, luxuriant vegetation in grassy ground corresponding to the edge of an underground fungal mycelium, the subject of folklore (5,4) |
| COSMIC | ____ web, a network of filaments of dark matter that may form the basis of the universe (6) |
