| BOGARDE | Surname of Dirk in The Night Porter (7) |
| DRINKS | I've arranged to join Dirk in the Nag's Head in Topsham for a few bevvies (6) |
| CHARLOTTERAMPLING | English actress whose films include The Damned and The Night Porter |
| DIRK | ___ Bogarde, The Night Porter star (4) |
| ELIJAH | Star of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Lord of the Rings, ... Wood (6) |
| SOBIG | Nickname of Dirk DeJong in a 1924 novel |
| DARLING | Sweetheart, Pieter Dirk Uys/Evita, lives in this town in the Western Cape (7) |
| SERVANT | "The ___", 1963 Joseph Losey film with Dirk Bogarde (7) |
| STICKER | For Dirk, pedant's out of line (7) |
| CUSSLER | Clive ___, American author of thrillers featuring the character Dirk Pitt |
| DESPAIR | 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder film starring Dirk Bogarde, based on a novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov |
| CHARLES | Hollyoaks hospital medic related to Dirk (7,1"5) |
| MODESTY | "___ Blaise", 1966 film with Dirk Bogarde based on a comic strip (7) |
| KINDRED | Ned and Dirk became relatives! (7) |
| JERICHO | 1992 novel by Dirk Bogarde (7) |
| WELLHAM | '80s NSW, Tasmania and Qld cricket captain, Dirk ... (7) |
| STABBED | What Dirk did to hazard a guess? (7) |
| IRKSOME | Dirk's tome has no headings. How tedious! (7) |
| LIBERTY | & 1D Dirk's daughter who has recently made a return to Hollyoaks village (7,6) |
| ATLARGE | Dirk Bogarde comedy, Doctor ___ |
