| POSTE | Surname of the heroine "Flora" in Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm, portrayed by Kate Beckinsale in a television film adaptation (5) |
| FLORA | First name of the heroine in Stella Gibbons' comic novel Cold Comfort Farm who was portrayed by Kate Beckinsale in a BBC television film adaptation (5) |
| NASTY | 'Something ___ in the woodshed' (Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm (1932), repeated) (5) |
| AVA | Classic film star Gardner portrayed by Kate Beckinsale in The Aviator |
| BENBECULA | Island on which the Scottish Jacobite heroine Flora MacDonald grew up (9) |
| STARKADDER | Judith --, a character in Stella Gibbon's novel 'Cold Comfort Farm' (10) |
| BALADI | Patrick _, The Office actor who starred in Stella and Marcella (6) |
| HERO | Woman played by Kate Beckinsale in the 1993 adaptation of "Much Ado About Nothing" |
| HARLOWE | Surname of the heroine of the novel Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson (7 |
| SELENE | Vampire warrior played by Kate Beckinsale in the Underworld movies (6) |
| ADADOOM | Owner of Cold Comfort Farm in the novel of that name by Stella Gibbons (3,4) |
| DOOM | Ada -, owner of Cold Comfort Farm in the 1932 novel of that name by Stella Gibbons (4) |
| SHARP | What is the surname of the heroine of Vanity Fair? (5) |
| OHARA | Surname of the heroine of Gone with the Wind (5) |
| VAVASOUR | Surname of the heroine in Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? (8) |
| FLORAPOSTE | The heroine of Stella Gibbons' comic novel Cold Comfort Farm published in 1932 (5,5) |
| STELLA | - Gibbons (Cold Comfort Farm) |
| ANNE | Forename of the heroine in novels by L. M. Montgomery set around the fictional farm Green Gables and the village Avonlea (4) |
| LORNA | Surname of the heroine of a novel set on Exmoor (5) |
| MURDOCH | Who was portrayed by Kate Winslet and Judi Dench in a 2001 biopic? (7) |
