| BOOTH | Connie _, co-wrote Fawlty Towers with John Cleese (5) |
| CONNIE | _ Booth, co-wrote Fawlty Towers with John Cleese (6) |
| CLEESE | John -; member of the Monty Python troupe who wrote Fawlty Towers with Connie Booth (6) |
| DORNAN | James _, co-wrote Gavin And Stacey with Ruth Jones (6) |
| RONSON | Mark _, co-wrote Shallow with Lady Gaga (6) |
| WANDA | "A Fish Called ___", 1988 film with John Cleese (5) |
| CHUNG | Connie __, US newsreader (5) |
| GAULT | Connie ___ (Canadian author of noted Saskatchewan-set novel A Beauty) |
| BABEL | Tower with confused noise (5) |
| KEEPA | Betray nothing in tower with a uniform vertical aspect (4,1,8,4) |
| TOWERS | 'Fawlty ---', television comedy series with John Cleese (6) |
| HOLYGRAIL | 1975 comedy with John Cleese, Monty Python and the - (4,5) |
| AFISHCALLEDWANDA | 1988 comedy film with John Cleese |
| KENDALL | BBC radio star with John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Bill Oddie, Jo ... |
| CLOCKWISE | Word meaning dextrorotatory; or, a film with John Cleese (9) |
| TIME | "___ Bandits" (1981 movie with John Cleese and Sean Connery) |
| HEIRLOOMS | Son joins Towers with great-grandfather's gear? (9) |
| TURRETS | Towers with parapets projecting vertically from the tops of some castles (7) |
| MINARETS | Slender towers with balconies (8) |
| PAGODAS | Towers with tiers |