| HELENA | __ Ravenclaw, the Grey Lady in the Harry Potter novels (6) |
| ROWENA | ____ Ravenclaw, one of the four founders of Hogwarts in Harry Potter (6) |
| SEPTET | The Harry Potter novels, e.g. |
| GOBLET | Term for a drinking vessel, used in the title of the fourth Harry Potter novel (6) |
| ISOBEL | ___ Grey, Lady Merton, character in Downton Abbey played by Penelope Wilton (6) |
| LEAKY | The ___ Cauldron, inn featured in the Harry Potter novels, which is the entranceway to Diagon Alley (5) |
| RON | The youngest Weasley boy in the Harry Potter novels (3) |
| PERCY | One of Ron Weasley's brothers, in the Harry Potter novels |
| QUIDDITCH | Game played on broomsticks in the Harry Potter novels (9) |
| SORTED | Put into Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Slytherin, say |
| FIGHER | Actor who's had roles in Short Circuit, Succession and In The Grey (6,7) |
| BEARDED | Like Dumbledore of the Harry Potter novels |
| ROWLING | Author of the Harry Potter novels, J K _ (7) |
| DESERT | - Orchid; name of the grey gelding who won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1989 with jockey Simon Sherwood (6) |
| MULLET | Percoid such as the grey flathead or red goatfish species; or, from dialect for "fool", a bi-level hairstyle, short at the front but long at the back (6) |
| ORCHID | Desert -; name of the grey horse that won the 1989 Cheltenham Gold Cup (6) |
| ASSISI | Birthplace of the founder of the Grey Friars (6) |
| ENERGY | Points to the grey in it as showing vigour (6) |
| DRACO | Malfoy of the Harry Potter novels |
| AGEISM | Bad attitude to the grey area is admitted by Beryl perhaps (6) |
