| CRUELLA | ___ de Vil, eccentric heiress and main villain in the novel The Hundred And One Dalmatians (7) |
| RUMPELSTILTSKIN | Grimm's fairy tale and main villain in the movie Shrek Forever After |
| SMITH | Dodie, author of the novel The Hundred And One Dalmatians (5) |
| PERDITA | Character who has a litter of puppies with Prince in Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (7) |
| TONTINE | Type of annuity scheme featured in the novel The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne (7) |
| THOUGHT | Computer in the novel The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (7) |
| LILIANE | ___ Bettencourt, French heiress and businesswoman, born in 1922 (7) |
| CRUELLADEVIL | Villainous heiress in Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (7,2,3) |
| DEVIL | Cruella --; character in Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians, portrayed by Glenn |
| PONGO | In literature, the nickname of Reginald Twistleton in the Wodehousian Uncle Fred stories; or, the main male Dalmatian in The Hundred and One Dalmatians (5) |
| CORSAIR | Main villain right to appeal, to be strangled by rope potentially |
| DODIESMITH | Writer of the 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (5,5) |
| SCAR | Main villain in The Lion King franchise voiced by Jeremy Irons in the 1994 film (4) |
| RICHELIEU | Real-life cardinal and Louis XIlI's chief minister portrayed as the main villain in The Three Musketeers (9) |
| DODIE | ___ Smith, author of the books I Capture The Castle and The Hundred And One Dalmatians (5) |
| DARTHMAUL | Main villain in "The Phantom Menace" |
| ATHOS | One of the title characters in the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (5) |
| PROSPERO | A wizard in the novel 'The Face in the Frost' by John Bellairs (8) |
| NARRATOR | Holden Caulfield has this role in the novel The Catcher In The Rye (8) |
| RINGLEADER | Main villain in opera and songs from Germany on the radio? (10) |
