| ORLA | ___ McCool, student played by Louisa Harland in Derry Girls (4) |
| RUBY | .... Allen, character in EastEnders played by Louisa Lytton (4) |
| JASH | Summer Bay student played by Jackson Gallagher (4,7) |
| ERIN | Main character in Derry Girls with a fitting name, given the show's setting |
| LOUISA | ____ Harland, actress who plays Orla McCool in Derry Girls (6) |
| GOOD | UK title of the second volume of Little Women by Louisa M Alcott published in 1869 (4,5) |
| BOYS | 1886 novel by Louisa M Alcott (3,4) (see 14D) |
| ARSE | Derriere, in Derry |
| MATTPAGE | Summer Bay student played by actor Alec Snow (4,4) |
| DEVLIN | Clare, character played by Nicola Coughlan in Derry Girls (6) |
| SKYLAR | Harvard student played by Minnie Driver in 1997's "Good Will Hunting" |
| VYVYAN | Medical student played by Adrian Edmondson in The Young Ones (6) |
| FERRIS | ____ Bueller, high school student played by Matthew Broderick in a 1987 film (6) |
| APRIL | Summer Bay medical student played by Rhiannon Fish (5) |
| ELLEWOODS | Fictional Harvard Law student played by Reese Witherspoon |
| NICOLA | Plays Clare in Derry Girls, - Coughlan (pictured) (6) |
| AISLING | Recurring character in Derry Girls (7) |
| IRA | Paramilitary group seen in "Derry Girls" |
| TUMBLEDRYER | Machine in laundrette in Derry, by implication? (6,5) |
| LITTLEWOMEN | Novel by Louisa May Alcott originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869 |
