| BEAUX | The -' Stratagem; George Farquhar's 1707 comedy featuring characters including Archer, Aimwell, Boniface, Cherry and Lady Bountiful, revived by Simon Godwin at the National Theatre in 2015 (5) |
| THE | 1707 comedy drama by Farquhar (3,5,9) |
| STRATAGEM | 1707 comedy drama by Farquhar (3,5,9) |
| ODYSSEUS | Mythological Greek hero who devised the stratagem whereby he and a band of warriors were able to sneak through the gates of Troy in a wooden horse (8) |
| LADY | - Bountiful; a character in George Farquhar's comedy The Beaux' Stratagem (4) |
| TARGET | Sam is not part of the stratagem - but he is the goal (6) |
| ENFIELD | Co-writer of a sketch show featuring characters including Kevin the Teenager and Tory Boy (7) |
| CLUEDO | Board game featuring characters including Colonel Mustard and Miss Scarlet (6) |
| SKELTON | Early TV comedy featuring characters Freddie the Freeloader and Clem Kadiddlehopper, The Red ... Sho |
| SKELTONSHOW | Early TV comedy featuring characters Freddie the Freeloader and Clem Kadiddlehopper, The Red ... (7, |
| ABBOT | Comedian who had a sketch show featuring characters including Basildon Bond, Cooperman and C. U. Jimmy (5) |
| WATCHMEN | 1986-7 comic book series by British writer Alan Moore featuring characters including Ozymandias and Doctor Manhattan (8) |
| TRAPDOOR | The - -; animated television series with characters Berk and Boni voiced by Willie Rushton (4,4) |
| BOUNTIFUL | Lady ___, character in Farquhar's play The Beaux" Stratagem (9) |
| AIMWELL | Central character in Farquhar's play The Beaux' Stratagem (7) |
| RANSOME | Author of a series of adventure novels about characters including the Amazons, the Coots, the Hullabaloos and the Swallows |
| BEANO | The ___, children's comic first printed in 1938, with characters including Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, and the Bash Street Kids (5) |
| DANT | They give; habeas quod di ____ boni, Plautus Rudens 1229 |
| INGRATUS | Is qui beneficium accepisse se negat, nihil boni dicit |
| IUSTI | Just for Men: non "modo" viris sed recti et boni (5) |
