| DUNLOP | 'A lighthouse of sanity in a universe of madness and suffering' was how the WWII POWs in the Burma-T |
| REPLICATION | "In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic ____, some people are going to get hurt, [...] and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice" (Richard Dawkins) |
| PORTLAND | - Bill; promontory in Dorset with a lighthouse of the same name (8) |
| BOX | Pandora's jar was how the myth started. Then it became this during the Renaissance. |
| GERMCELLS | They unite to reproduce article lost from location of WWII POWs? (4,5) |
| EPCOT | Theme park with a Universe of Energy pavilion |
| SPIDERGWEN | Superhero in a universe where Peter Parker didn't get bitten |
| CHINDIT | A member of one of Brigadier Wingate's long-range penetration groups in the Burma campaign of the Second World War (7) |
| PRIVET | Shrub often used for hedging in neat suburban gardens, hence its use as the name of a muggle street, where the non-magical "perfectly normal" Dursleys reside, in the fictional universe of Harry Potter |
| STEPHEN | A Brief History Of Time, the book about the universe of which we read little and understood less, was written by physicist ... Hawking |
| OLSENS | Elizabeth of "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" and her older twin sisters |
| UREN | Which former boxer and POW on the Burma-Thailand railway became Minister for Urban and Regional Development in the Whitlam Labor government? (4) |
| ETERNITY | "The boldest book of our time. Honestly, fearlessly on the screen!" was how they described the 1953 |
| LAING | Which Scottish psychologist, with Esterson, wrote Sanity, Madness and the Family (1964), which radically changed the way mental illness was treated? (5) |
| PHAROS | Lighthouse of antiquity; one of the seven wonders of the world (6) |
| ALEXANDRIA | Lighthouse of ____, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (10) |
| NEWSREEL | Dance of the reporters? Was how we saw events in the past (8) |
| EYRE | "The ___ Affair" (murder mystery set in the universe of a Bronte novel) |
| SKA | Music genre of Madness and The Specials, e.g. (3) |
| TOWNCRIER | "Oyez! Oyez!" or, in English, "Hear ye! Hear ye!" was how this official announced the arrival of new |
