| SHERLOCKHOLMES | Character who appeared to meet his end in The Final Problem (1893) |
| ABSALOM | He met his end in the wood of Ephraim |
| REICHENBACHFALLS | Location of the final altercation between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty in The Final Problem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (11,5) |
| ITALIANPRIEST | ... in "The Final Problem" ... |
| RINGABELL | Murder victim meets his end coming after cartel - jog your memory? |
| TARNISHED | Disgraced sailor meets his end at sea (9) |
| MARAT | French revolutionary who met his end in a bathtub |
| ROUEN | Don Juan, say, meeting his end in European city (5) |
| LASTSTRAW | Misrepresentation of stalwarts that's the final problem (4,5) |
| HUGO | French novelist who, in order to prevent outings or procrastination thus forcing him to meet his deadline for writing The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, instructed that his clothes be hidden by his valet (4 |
| DESPERATEDAN | Cow pie-eating character who appeared in The Dandy from its first issue in 1937 to its final issue in 2013 |
| LEANDER | A youth from Abydos who swam nightly across the Hellespont to meet his beloved (7) |
| GABRIEL | Angel who appeared to the Virgin Mary, in the Bible |
| PETER | He dashed from France to England to meet his half-sisters Anna and Gina Knight in EastEnders (5,5) |
| BEALE | He dashed from France to England to meet his half-sisters Anna and Gina Knight in EastEnders (5,5) |
| ARRIVAL | On getting there, the sun-god went back to meet his rival (7) |
| YODA | Character who appeared via CGI in Attack of the Clones |
| SNOOTY | Lord _; character who appeared in the Beano (6) |
| FALSTAFF | Shakespearian comic character who appeared in four of the bard's plays (8) |
| MICKEYMOUSE | Walt Disney cartoon character who appeared in the 1928 film Steamboat Willie (6,5) |
