| CIRCULAR | The ___ Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1908) |
| SPIRAL | "The ___ Staircase", 1946 thriller which won Ethel Barrymore a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination (6) |
| GODS | "___ Fool" (Mary Roberts Rinehart love story) |
| TISH | Mary Roberts Rinehart volume |
| RINEHART | Mary Roberts ___, US mystery writer of 1908 novel The Circular Staircase (8) |
| MCELHINNEY | Gina Rinehart in The House of Hancock and Rhonda in the AAMI ads, Mandy ... |
| HOLT | Publishing partner of Rinehart and Winston |
| IMSORICH | Donald Trump or Gina Rinehart might say this (1'1,2,4) |
| GINA | Gain control over Ms Rinehart (4) |
| FOSSIL | Any one of the prehistoric remains collected from Lyme Regis by Mary Anning - the palaeontologist said to have inspired the tongue-twister "She sells seashells on the seashore" (6) |
| AIRS | - Above the Ground; novel by Mary Stewart named after the leaps and steps of white Lipizzan stallions at the Spanish Riding School (4) |
| MILL | The ___ on the Floss: 1860 novel by Mary Ann Evans, who used the pen name George Eliot (4) |
| ALOFT | The Borrowers -; one of the children's novels by Mary Norton (5) |
| TYLER | The role of Laura Petrie in TV's 1960 slick comedy, The Dick Van Dyke Show was played by Mary ... Mo |
| BIDDY | What was the name of the character played by Mary McEvoy in Glenroe? (5) |
| UMBRELLA | Item used by Mary Poppins to fly or by the comic character Penguin as a gun (8) |
| AGENT | Grammatical term describing Mary in both "Mary loved John" and "John was loved by Mary" |
| BORROWERS | The -, children's book series by Mary Norton about the lives of tiny people (9) |
| BORROWER | A debtor one shouldn't be, according to a saying taken from Polonius in Hamlet a library patron; or, one of the tiny people who pinch from the humans in tales by Mary Norton (8) |
| CLARADAWES | Character in the 1913 D H Lawrence novel Sons and Lovers played by Mary Ure in the 1960 film adaptation (5,5) |
