| CROSSDRESSING | Wearing the wrong clothes like a wound covering on comic characters (5-8) |
| REDRESSED | Corrected the mistake of wearing the wrong clothes? (9) |
| TENDS | Takes care of like a wound |
| BRA | "8 Dogs That Can Tell I'm Wearing the Wrong ___ Size" ("Reductress" headline) |
| MODEL | Show clothes like a paragon (5) |
| REDRESS | Make amends for having worn the wrong clothes? (7) |
| ALTER | Tweak clothes like a tailor |
| STRIP | Remove all clothes, like Susan Kennedy did to surprise Karl (5) |
| PAULMCCARTNEY | In 2012, when the last ever printed copy of The Dandy was issued, who was depicted singing one of his songs, accompanied by 50 of the comic's characters? (4,9) |
| HOWARDTHEDUCK | Willard Huyck film based on comic books by Steve Gerber (6,3,4) |
| FANTASTICFOUR | 2015 film based on comic books |
| UMBRELLA | The ____ Academy, TV superhero series based on comic books by Gerard Way (8) |
| STICKINGPLASTER | Standing quietly, the queen holding final wound covering (8,7) |
| THESMURFS | Comic characters created by the Belgian artist Peyo (3,6) |
| NOBLEMETAL | Perhaps gold lame belt on comic (5,5) |
| MACROECONOMICS | A right-on comic comes to rubbish what Chancellor does |
| THEWAGON | Article on comic working to attain sobriety? (3,5) |
| ACADEMY | The Umbrella _, fantasy TV show based on comic books by musician Gerard Way (7) |
| SPAWN | 1997 film based on comic books by Todd McFarlane (5) |
| SCAB | Wound covering suggested by sensible customer at bar in the west |
