| PENNIESFROMHEAVEN | A Dennis Potter TV drama series named after a song (7,4,6) |
| LIPSTICK | ___ on Your Collar, Dennis Potter TV serial |
| LESSTHANZERO | 1985 novel by Bret Easton Ellis named after a song by Elvis Costello |
| COCTEAUTWINS | Band formed in Grangemouth, 1979, named after a song written by Jim Kerr (7,5) |
| BRIMSTONE | ____ and Treacle, the 1976 Dennis Potter TV play starring Denholm Elliott which was not transmitted until 1987 |
| ORDOIHAVETOGETRUFF | Part of a Dennis the Menace threat? |
| COL | Potter's TV rank: Abbr. |
| RANT | Many a Dennis Miller monologue |
| CNBC | Home of a Dennis Miller show |
| ICECREAM | Penstemon series named after a sweet summer treat (3,5) |
| THEFT | Grand ___ Auto (video game series named after a property crime) |
| TREME | HBO series named after a NOLA neighborhood |
| TURANGALEELA | One-eyed spaceship captain in the Futurama animated series, named after a 20th-century symphony |
| PENNYDREADFUL | Showtime series named after an old fiction genre |
| RIO | Very tender mandevilla series named after Brazil's largest city (3) |
| MIRANDA | BBC comedy series named after its lead character, consisting of only 20 episodes, made from 2009-2014 (7) |
| BLUE | Dennis Potter drama that took its title from A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad (4,10,5) |
| PROFIT | The ___ documentary style business reality TV series which is presented by Marcus Lemonis and that has a spin-off series named The Partner |
| AIRPORT | Fortified wine after a song? Things could take off from here |
| ARIA | Uplifting simple tune after a song sung in opera |