| MICHAELGAMBON | BAFTA TV Award Best Actor winner for The Singing Detective, Wives and Daughters, Longitude and Perfect Strangers |
| GAMBON | BAFTA TV Award Best Actor winner for The Singing Detective, Wives and Daughters Longitude and Perfect Strangers (7,6) |
| MICHAEL | BAFTA TV Award Best Actor winner for The Singing Detective, Wives and Daughters Longitude and Perfect Strangers (7,6) |
| PECK | Bob ___, 1986 BAFTA TV Award Best Actor winner for Edge of Darkness (4) |
| HAYES | Patricia ?, 1972 BAFTA TV Award Best Actress winner for Edna, the Inebriate Woman |
| POTTER | Dennis, TV dramatist noted for The Singing Detective (6) |
| GARFIELD | Andrew ___, winner of the 2008 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor for drama Boy A (8) |
| WHITELAW | Billie ___, winner of a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for 1972 BBC drama series The Sextet (8) |
| SURANNE | _ Jones, won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress in 2016 for the thriller series Doctor Foster (7) |
| DENNISPOTTER | Writer of the TV dramas Pennies From Heaven and The Singing Detective (6,6) |
| GASKELL | Author of the novels including North and South, Wives and Daughters and Cranford (the latter adapted into a BBC television period drama in 2007) (7) |
| HAWES | Actress in the 1999 miniseries Wives and Daughters as well as The Casual Vacancy, The Durrells and a film adaptation of Rebecca (5) |
| PRIMESUSPECT | ITV drama series for which Helen Mirren won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress from 1992-94 (5,7) |
| ELBOW | The most sensuous word in the English language, according to Philip Marlow in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective |
| ELIZABETHGASKELL | Victorian novelist who wrote North and South, Mary Barton and Wives and Daughters (9,7) |
| MCCLURE | Vicky ___, Best Actress BAFTA TV Award winner for 2010 drama This Is England '86 (7) |
| THORA | --- Hird, performer who won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress three times (5) |
| DENNIS | Forename of the dramatist whose works including Blue Remembered Hills and The Singing Detective are set in his native Forest of Dean (6) |
| WALLACEBEERY | Best Actor winner for "The Champ" |
| COLINFIRTH | Best Actor winner for "The King's Speech" |
