| EDIEADAMS | Singer in old Muriel Cigars ads |
| KOVACS | Muriel cigar pitchman of the 50's |
| OSCILLATE | Liverpudlian singer in old set revamped for swing? (9) |
| ANNE | Actress whose 2019 dramatic roles included Muriel Deacon in BBC's Years And Years and Lady Denham in ITV's Sanditon (4,4) |
| REID | Actress whose 2019 dramatic roles included Muriel Deacon in BBC's Years And Years and Lady Denham in ITV's Sanditon (4,4) |
| SLENDERMEANS | The Girls of ____ is a Muriel Spark novel about hard times in Kensington in 1945 |
| GEENA | Muriel portrayer in "The Accidental Tourist" |
| MEMENTOMORI | Novel by Muriel Spark published in 1959 |
| NUNS | Characters in Muriel Spark's "The Abbess of Crewe" |
| DELIRIUM | Muriel & Di were in a state of shock (8) |
| EDWARDS | Equine artist noted for illustrations in Country Life, Muriel Wace's Moorland Mousie and Anna Sewell's Black Beauty (7) |
| PRIME | The _ of Miss Jean Brodie; novel by Muriel Spark that was adapted into a film with Maggie Smith in 1969 (5) |
| WALTER | Harriet - - -, actress who played Muriel Carpenter in Soldiering On, part of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads 3 (6) |
| JEANBRODIE | Who is the middle-aged Edinburgh school teacher in Muriel Spark's 1961 novel? (4,6) |
| MISSJEANBRODIE | The Prime Of ____, novel by Muriel Spark published in 1961 about an Edinburgh teacher (4,4,6) |
| SMITH | Actress awarded an Oscar for her role in an adaptation of Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (5) |
| BRODIE | Jean __, Muriel Spark's hero, whom we meet in her prime? (6) |
| RAHN | Actress Muriel |
| PRIMEOFMISSJEANBRODIE | Muriel Spark novel, with "The" |
| COMFORTERS | The ___, 1957 novel by Muriel Spark (10) |