| UMBRELLA | The Blue ________: a children's novel by Bond, made into a Bollywood movie in 2005 |
| ADHERE | Bond made them fret endlessly |
| TIES | Displeased with the bonds made by transverse beams (5-4) |
| CROSS | Displeased with the bonds made by transverse beams (5-4) |
| ERNIE | Underground ___ - a children's educational series aired on CBeebies (5) |
| SEEK | Hide-and- _, a children's game (4) |
| RANI | Royal in many a Bollywood movie |
| RAGA | Tune in many a Bollywood movie |
| RONDO | "Blue ___ a la Turk," jazz standard from Dave Brubeck |
| BALLET | Form of classical dance depicted in a children's novel by Noel Streatfeild and in paintings by Edgar Degas and also Laura Knight (6) |
| DALMATIANS | Dogs of a breed featured in a children's novel by Dodie Smith (10) |
| WIZARDOFOZ | Title character in a 1939 film, based on a children's novel by L Frank Baum (6,2,2) |
| BOWTIE | Adorned by Bond, Churchill, Poirot and the 11th incarnation of the Doctor, a neck accessory with a shape reflected in farfalle or "butterfly" pasta; or, a pattern for patchwork quilts, resembling this |
| STIG | Title caveman character in a children's novel by English author Clive King (4) |
| SIKANDAR | The title of the upcoming movie directed by AR Murugadoss starring a Bollywood icon. (8) |
| HEIDI | Girl who lives in the Swiss Alps, in a children's novel |
| INCLEMENT | All the rage for criminal - the last one captured by Bond - the unpleasant type who comes in with th |
| ASTRA | Word following Brahm in the Bollywood movie on the Shiva Trilogy |
| FAUNTLEROY | 'Little Lord --', a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett (10) |
| WHALE | The African elephant may be the biggest animal on earth, but take a trip on a ship and you'll discover that the blue ___ is the largest in the world |
