| SUSANNAH | _ Doyle, actress who played Joy Merryweather in Drop The Dead Donkey (8) |
| NEIL | _ Pearson, actor who played Dave Charnley in Drop The Dead Donkey (4) |
| STEPHANIEHSU | Actress who played Joy in "Everything Everywhere All at Once" |
| WICKS | Victoria -, actress who played Sally Smedley in 1990s Channel 4 sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey (5) |
| PEARSON | Neil, English actor who played Dave Charnley in the sitcom Drop The Dead Donkey (7) |
| NEILPEARSON | Actor best known for Drop the Dead Donkey and Between the Lines (4,7) |
| DECREASE | Extremely desirable to stop involving resistance in drop (8) |
| DISSOLVE | End rise of deficit in drop (8) |
| DROP | _ The Dead Donkey, Channel 4 comedy set in a newsroom (4) |
| RIK | Comedian Mayall who played the title character in Drop Dead Fred |
| BRIAN | ___ Doyle-Murray Caddyshack writer who plays Buster Green in the 1993 film Groundhog Day |
| FLORA | Leader of the three good fairies in the 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty, companion of Fauna and Merryweather (5) |
| MARGARETCHO | Korean-American comedian who starred in "Drop Dead Diva": 2 wds. |
| TIMOTHY | American psychologist who popularised the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out" (7,5) |
| LEARY | American psychologist who popularised the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out" (7,5) |
| HOLLIE | British jockey who competes in flat racing, _ Doyle (6) |
| RODDY | _ Doyle, Irish writer behind The Commitments and The Van (5) |
| DRYICE | Dead donkey's tail in food freezer (3,3) |
| DONKEY | TV newsroom comedy (Drop The Dead ------) |
| DEKLERK | Bok kerel who sidesteps in drop-kick environment (2,5) |
