| PRUNELLA | ___ Scales, actress who played Sybil Fawlty in the TV sitcom Fawlty Towers (8) |
| PRUNELLADCALES | Actress who played Sybil in the 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers (8,6) |
| SCALES | Surname of Prunella who played Sybil in the classic 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers (6) |
| BOOTH | Connie ___, actress-writer who played Polly in BBC TV sitcom Fawlty Towers (5) |
| SACHS | Andrew ___, actor who played Manuel in BBC TV sitcom Fawlty Towers (5) |
| CLEESE | John ___, comic actor who co-wrote and starred in BBC TV sitcom Fawlty Towers (6) |
| BASILICA | Fawlty in charge of a church (8) |
| SYBIL | Basil Fawlty's wife played by Prunella Scales in old sitcom Fawlty Towers (5) |
| BASIL | John Cleese played mad hotelier ... Fawlty in the classic TV series first screened more than 25 year |
| JOHNCLEESE | Member of the Monty Python comedy troupe who co-wrote and starred in the sitcom Fawlty Towers (4,6) |
| POLLY | Waitress and maid played by Connie Booth in the 1975-79 sitcom Fawlty Towers (5,7) |
| SHERMAN | Waitress and maid played by Connie Booth in the 1975-79 sitcom Fawlty Towers (5,7) |
| BEAUFORT | The ___ Scale, used by the Met Ofice to measure wind intensity (8) |
| TORQUAY | Seaside town in which the 1975-9 sitcom Fawlty Towers was set (7) |
| MERCALLI | ___ scale, Richter alternative measuring the intensity of earthquakes by their effect (8) |
| DISRAELI | Author of novels including Coningsby, Henrietta Temple, Sybil and Vivian Grey who twice served as prime minister of the UK (8) |
| FEASIBLE | It's possible to say Sybil is following Bill by the sound of it (8) |
| ATOUCHOFCLASS | First of the 12 episodes of the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers, originally broadcast on 19 September 1975 (1,5,2,5) |
| MAJOR | Ballard Berkeley's role in sitcom Fawlty Towers, ----- Gowen (5) |
| BASILISK | Sybil's partner is known initially as one with a fearsome look (8) |
