| SMILEYSPEOPLE | Which 1982 television adaptation of a John Le Carre novel starred Alec Guinness? (7,6) |
| ANAGRAM | Letters represented genuine class from Alec Guinness? (7) |
| EQUUS | The first production of this 1973 Peter Shaffer play starred Alec McCowen as Dysart and Peter Firth as Alan Strang |
| ALE | Alec's Guinness? |
| POCKETFUL | A ___ of Rye, TV adaptation of a Miss Marple mystery (9) |
| LAST | The ___ of Us TV adaptation of a video game series whose release date is in 2023 |
| GOT | TV adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire: Abbr. |
| MANSFIELDPARK | Billie Piper starred as Fanny Price in the 2007 television adaptation of this Jane Austen novel (9,4 |
| APENNYMORENOT | Jeffrey Archer novel published in 1976 and the title of the 1990 television adaptation starring Ed A |
| STARK | In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels and television adaptation Game of Thrones, the house with a coat of arms bearing a depiction of a dire wolf (5) |
| MANAGER | Tom Hiddleston miniseries based on a John le Carre novel, The Night ------- (7) |
| GARDENER | The Constant ___, 2005 film based on a John Le Carre novel (8) |
| SPY | Lead character in a John le Carre or Tom Clancy novel, often |
| TINKER | Gary Oldman film based on a John le Carre novel, --- Tailor Soldier Spy (6) |
| ZETAJONES | Welsh actress married to Michael Douglas who starred as Mariette in the television adaptation of H. E. Bates' novel The Darling Buds of May (4-5) |
| THOMPSON | Athlete who, at the 1984 Olympics, won the decathlon gold medal for the second time; or, an actress who starred in a television adaptation of Olivia Manning's Fortunes of War (8) |
| HODGE | A rustic or countryman; an actress in Rumpole of the Bailey and a television adaptation of Rosamunde Pilcher's The Shell Seekers; or, Samuel Johnson's most famous cat (5) |
| PRAED | Stage name of actor Michael David Prince, who played Robin of Loxley in Robin of Sherwood and Jake Lovell in the 1993 television adaptation of Jilly Cooper's Riders (5) |
| LINDSAY | Actor who starred in My Family with Zoe Wanamaker and narrated a television adaptation of Brambly Hedge (7) |
| SMILEY | Aka Oldman's Beggarman in a John le Carre thriller (6) |
