| HOULT | Warm Bodies and The Great actor, Nicholas - (pictured) (5) |
| CAGED | Actor Nicholas died in prison |
| WASPS | Social insects, typically with black-and-yellow bodies and ovipositors specialised for stinging (5) |
| LEMUR | The name for any of the indigenous primates of Madagascar with large eyes, foxlike faces, monkeylike bodies, and long hind limbs. |
| OGRES | Fictional giant humanoids with muscular bodies and large heads (5) |
| MANTEL | Author of A Change of Climate and An Experiment in Love as well as the Cromwell trilogy comprising Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light (6) |
| TOBEY | Spider-man and The Great Gatsby actor, _ Maguire (5) |
| CAGEY | Cautious, like actor Nicholas? |
| SCENE | Something a great actor might steal |
| CRABS | Crustaceans having broad flattened bodies and ten legs |
| EGYPT | Nation famous for the ancient culture which created the Pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx |
| WONKA | Candy maker in the book "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" |
| BRAND | Jo -----, comic and The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice host (5) |
| TONYS | Collection of great actors? |
| ASTRONOMY | The scientific study of celestial bodies and the universe as a whole (9) |
| COMET | "Natasha, Pierre & the Great ___ of 1812" |
| HEALTHINSURANCE | It covers our bodies and the ruins can heal amazingly (6,9) |
| ASTRONOMER | Scientist who studies individual celestial bodies and the universe as a whole |
| ASTRONOMERS | Scientists who study celestial bodies and the universe as a whole (11) |
| STOW | Antiquary whose Survey of London during Elizabeth I's reign charts life in the capital from its castles and towers to the butchers and bakers prior to the Plague and the Great Fire (4) |
