| ROUNDTHEBEND | Shute's novel Bats featured those crazy characters Ned, Hubert, and Don (5,3,4) |
| BENHALL | Actor behind Neighbours character Ned Willis (3,4) |
| FLANDERS | The Simpsons character, Ned - (8) |
| DINGBATS | Row with Government is followed by crazy characters |
| STUN | Crazy characters turned round in shock (4) |
| ALICESPRINGS | Central Australian town, made famous by a Nevil Shute novel (5,7) |
| RAVENMANIACS | What do you call those crazy birds? |
| DISCONTINUES | Shutes |
| BEACH | Nevil Shute's novel of Australians awaiting the effects of nuclear fallout, filmed with Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck. It was On The ... |
| ATOWN | ___ Like Alice (Nevil Shute's novel): 2 wds. |
| SLEUTHS | Detectives in Shute novel following characters in centre of Oslo (7) |
| ATOWNLIKEALICE | Nevil Shute novel set partly in Malaya and Australia |
| ATOWNLIKE | Nevil Shute novel turned into film (1,4,4,5) |
| INTHEWET | Nevil Shute novel featuring the character David Anderson (2,3,3) |
| SLEUTH | The last thing from Nevil Shute: novel made into film (6) |
| ONTHEBEACH | 1957 Nevil Shute novel about atomic devastation (2,3,5) |
| LONELYROAD | 1932 Nevil Shute novel narrated by Commander Malcolm Stevenson (6,4) |
| ALICE | Nevil Shute novel of WWII in South-East Asia, A Town Like ... |
| LAMB | Adoration of the Mystic -; Ghent Altarpiece attributed to brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck (4) |
| VANEYCK | Family name of Flemish painters Hubert and Jan (3,4) |
