| ENOCHARDEN | Tennyson poem about a man who returns home after many years, having been shipwrecked (5,5) |
| ENOCH | - Arden ; Tennyson's poem about a shipwrecked fisherman who returns home to find his wife has remarried (5) |
| ARDEN | 1864 Tennyson poem about a man presumed dead after a shipwreck (5,5) |
| CLOSETOYOU | New Elliot Page movie about a trans man who returns to his hometown for a family reunion |
| REPEL | Check the advance of a sick man who returns (5) |
| ODYSSEY | Homeric epic in 24 books in which the wandering king of Ithaca returns home after 10 years to be recognised only by his faithful dog, Argos (7) |
| CASTAWAY | Someone who has been shipwrecked onto a desert island, eg (8) |
| OCTOGENARIAN | In years, having four scores to settle, try retaliating, organising action near... (12) |
| YEASTY | Player given hand within two years having ability to rise? |
| GODIVA | Tennyson poem about a noblewoman who rode naked through Coventry (6) |
| EVILISLE | Bad place to be shipwrecked? |
| INMEMORIAM | Tennyson poem about Arthur Hallam's death (2,8) |
| HOMECOMING | 2023 bestseller about a journalist who returns to Australia from England |
| REPATRIATE | Agent worried about reduced hearing to return home (10) |
| GONE | Drama about a man who is suspected of having a hand in his wife's disappearance, ___ Girl (4) |
| WANDANEVADA | 1979 Peter Fonda movie about a man who wins a young orphan (14-year-old Brooke Shields) in a poker g |
| SIZEME | Doco about a man who lives on McDonald's for a month, Super... (4,2) |
| UNKNOWN | Diane Kruger thriller about a man who wakes from a coma to find his identity stolen (7) |
| RIP | Washington Irving story about a man who sleeps for twenty years (3,3,6) |
| NIGHT | Horror film remake about a man who discovers his neighbour is a vampire, ___ (5) |
