| NUMBER | The characters at the end of 15 across in 1984, for example (6) |
| WATFORD | Losing FA Cup finalists, to "15 Across", in 1984 (7) |
| ANIMAL | Hound most of the characters at the end of 15 across (6) |
| ERSATZ | Pretend taser shot character at the end of series |
| DYSTOPIA | Detective in today's rag depicts how bad things were in 1984, for example (8) |
| SENDER | Mailer needs new character at the end (6) |
| MUZZLE | Cross when entertaining character at the end repeated gag |
| RETURN | Retort from characters at the end of 15 across (6) |
| BREAKS | Snaps with those characters at the end of 15 across on bender (6) |
| SESAME | With 63-Across, where to find all the characters at the starts of 17-, 24-, 40-, 52- and 66-Across |
| DORMOUSE | One of the characters at the tea party in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (8) |
| YEARBOOK | Record of events in 1984, for example? (8) |
| HUNTER | Bounty ___ (Job that the character at |
| LEAPYEAR | She could have asked him to marry her there in 1984, for example (4,4) |
| FIGURE | A number of those characters at the end of 18 across (6) |
| CRUELSUMMER | Peter Ueberroth won Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 1984 for organizing the L.A. Olympics, but it was a ___ for Soviet Bloc athletes, whose countries boycotted the Games |
| PETERUEBERROTH | This 2003 candidate was Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1984 for organizing the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles |
| ANITABROOKNER | Winner of the Booker Prize in 1984 for Hotel du Lac (5,8) |
| LACONIC | Lack of nice characters at the end falling short (7) |
| ANTIHERO | Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984, for example (8) |
