| BRER | Title for a fictional Southern rabbit |
| MOOMIN | Sound like a cow has time for a fictional creature (6) |
| FOILEDAGAIN | “Curses, ____” is a stock phrase for a fictional villain |
| RUMPLE | Crush for a fictional lawyer lacking love (6) |
| TARZANA | Los Angeles neighborhood named for a fictional character |
| RIOLOBO | 1970 western named for a fictional Texas city |
| DUPE | Sucker for a fictional story line |
| NATE | ___ the Great rhyming name for a fictional detective |
| TUCK | Stitched fold or pleat to improve a garment's fit or shape; a rapier; a dive position; a child's snacks at school; or, a fictional friar of Sherwood Forest (4) |
| MYTH | A legend-like story but of gods and heroes rather than saints; a fallacy or figment; a tale with a veiled meaning; or, a fictional person or thing (4) |
| FAME | TV series based on the 1980 film of the same name about a group of students at a fictional school for the performing arts |
| CATFISH | What creature's name is also now used as a term meaning to lure an unsuspecting someone into a relationship using a fictional online persona? (7) |
| CREATURE | Word for an animal; or, a fictional or imaginary being such as a monster or unicorn (8) |
| DRACULA | A fictional infamous character, a vampire, Vlad the impaler |
| SMEG | A kitchen appliance manufacturer; a fictional expletive in Red Dwarf |
| CATFISHES | Lures into a relationship by using a fictional online persona |
| ZORRO | Spanish for 'fox' giving name to a fictional aristocratic outlaw of old California (5) |
| WINNIETHEPOOL | 2011 animated film that, with an alternate ending, shows a swimming venue bearing a fictional bear's |
| FREEREIN | Horsey Netflix drama series for children and young people set on a fictional Isle of Wight-like island (4,4) |
| HOLMES | Surname of a fictional detective who features in four novels and 56 short stories including A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles (6) |
