| PANTHER | Titular man-eating animal which terrorizes the village of Bisnu in the short story "_______'s Moon" |
| ADLER | Irene, antagonist of Sherlock Holmes in the short story A Scandal In Bohemia (5) |
| OLAF | Count who terrorizes the Baudelaire children in the Lemony Snicket books |
| KERATIN | Man eating animal, one to provide protein (7) |
| INADAY | 'How to write a short story ___' (ambitiously paced Guardian masterclass) (2,1,3) |
| COSMONAUT | Fancy U.S. moon act, or Russian? (9) |
| APOLLO | U.S. moon-landing program |
| HOPEVALLEY | Quaint setting of "When Calls the Heart", the 2014-debuting Hallmark drama inspired by the books of Canadian author Janette Oke who was born in the village of Champion in southern Alberta: 2 wds. |
| LADON | River in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece that rises on the western slope of the Aroania mountain, near the village of Kastria |
| ROSEBOWL | Original name of a cricket ground in the village of West End in Hampshire; or, a type of vase often with a perforated lid or "frog" (4,4) |
| HIGHLANDER | Christopher Lambert played Connor Macleod from 'the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel' in this 80s fantasy film that spawned a franchise of sequels and spin-offs |
| DUNEISTEIN | Archaeological site on an inter-tidal sea stack on the north east coast of the Isle of Lewis, near the village of Knockaird |
| BENY | ___-Sur-mer (Canadian War Cemetery near the village of Reviers in the Normandy region of France) |
| DUNSINANE | Hill near the village of Collace in Perthshire mentioned in Shakespeare's Macbeth |
| FRUITSTAND | Did You Know? The village of Keremeos (in British Columbia) is known as 'The ___ ___ Capital of Canada' |
| AVALANCHE | Al Church in the short version The Road has a part in The Fall - presumably it's all downhill after this (9) |
| THEBLAIRWITCH | Horror film antagonist who terrorizes student filmmakers in Maryland's Black Hills woods: 3 wds. |
| GIELGUD | The final performance of this actor born in 1904 was in the short film Catastrophe; Sir John ... |
| GREENE | 20th-century English novelist whose works include Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Potting Shed, Travels with My Aunt and the short story Went the Day Well? (6) |
| RUE | Edgar Allan Poe wrote the short story, The Murders In The ... Morgue (3) |
