| TIT | '---field Thunderbolt', Ealing comedy about old train 'played' by the 1838 Lion (3) |
| WAITING | Comedy about old age (------- for God) |
| CHOPIN | European composer of the 1838 Prelude in E minor (6) |
| HUE | ___ and Cry, 1947 Ealing comedy starring Alistair Sim (3) |
| GWR | Old train company (inits) (3) |
| ELS | Old trains |
| WHISKYGALORE | 1949 Ealing comedy based on a novel of the same name by Compton MacKenzie |
| BRYSON | 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid', a memoir by Bill -- (6) |
| LAVENDERHILLMOB | The ___, 1951 Ealing comedy (8,4,3) |
| KINGLEAR | Short piece about Ealing comedy, or a tragedy (4,4) |
| THELOVELOTTERY | 1954 Ealing comedy featuring an uncredited cameo from Humphrey Bogart (3,4,7) |
| GUARDSVAN | Where the old train driver had a break, say? (6,3) |
| AURIC | Georges ____, one of Les Six, later wrote the music for The Lavender Hill Mob and The Titfield Thunderbolt |
| CRICHTON | Charles -, director of films The Titfield Thunderbolt and The Lavender Hill Mob (8) |
| INDRA | Chief god of the Rig-Veda, whose weapon was the thunderbolt, or vajra (5) |
| TITFIELD | The ___ Thunderbolt, 1953 film starring 0-4-2 Lion (8) |
| LAVENDER | 1951 Ealing comedy film, The _ Hill Mob (8) |
| HILL | The Lavender ___ Mob, 1951 Ealing comedy (4) |
| PIMLICO | Passport To ---, Ealing comedy starring Stanley Holloway and Margaret Rutherford (7) |
| CORONETS | They were linked with Kind Hearts for an Ealing Comedy classic (8) |
