| MISSSAIGON | West End musical based on an epic love story during the Vietnam War (4,6) |
| OLIVER | Boy befriended by the Artful Dodger in the West End musical based on Dickens' classic novel |
| HALFASIXPENCE | 1963 West End musical based on the novel Kipps by HG Wells (4,1,8) |
| BEOWULF | 2007 animated fantasy film based on an epic poem (7) |
| WICKED | Desmond Barrit, a patron of Gorleston Pavilion, played The Wizard in this West End musical based upon a character in The Wizard of Oz (6) |
| LIEINWAIT | Get ready to attack false story during interval (3,2,4) |
| RELATING | Telling made-up story during phone call (8) |
| MARGUERITE | Another name for an ox-eye daisy; or, a 2008 West End musical by Michel Legrand (10) |
| PADDINGTON | Bear who's the main character of a new West End musical |
| AIRAMERICA | Civilian airline set up by the CIA, active during the Vietnam War (3,7) |
| SAIGON | Miss ___, musical set during the Vietnam War and based on the opera Madame Butterfly (6) |
| CRAWFORD | Michael -; actor noted for his role in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em and the West End musical The Phantom of the Opera (8) |
| COLOR | "The ___ Purple" (Broadway musical based on an Alice Walker novel) |
| WIZ | "The ___" (Broadway musical based on an L. Frank Baum book) |
| PHANTOM | West End musical, The ------- of the Opera (7) |
| OURHOUSE | 2002 West End musical featuring songs by the band Madness (3,5) |
| AIDA | 2000 Elton John/Tim Rice musical based on an opera |
| CARMENJONES | 1954 film musical based on an opera by Bizet (6,5) |
| AGENTORANGE | Toxic herbicide that was sprayed from the air by the US military during the Vietnam War (5,6) |
| VIETCONG | Name by which the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam was known during the Vietnam War (8) |
