| SINBADTHESAILOR | Fictional hero of Middle Easter origin who appeared in the Arabian Nights stories (6,3,6) |
| SINBAD | Fictional sailor and hero whose seven voyages are described in the Arabian Nights stories (6) |
| PARVENU | A person of humble origin who has gained wealth or celebrity (7) |
| TAKETOTHEBOTTLE | What baby-faced type and drunk do? Genie in the Arabian Nights perhaps could do the same! (4,2,3,6) |
| TARZANOFTHEAPES | Fictional hero who married Jane |
| BUMPPO | Natty, the fictional hero of The Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper (6) |
| ALIBABA | Poor woodcutter in the Arabian Nights entertainments who discovers that the magic words 'open sesame' will open the doors of a cave containing the treasure of the Forty Thieves |
| OPENSESAME | Magical phrase in one of the One Thousand and One Nights stories (4,6) |
| CIMMERIAN | Member of the barbarian race to which Robert E. Howard's fictional hero Conan belongs, descended in the stories from the ancient Atlanteans (9) |
| CRUSOE | Fictional hero whose first words are "I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York..." |
| MAIGRET | Fictional hero of ragtime composer (7) |
| ZORRO | Fictional hero of 19th-century California |
| THESAINT | Nickname of the fictional hero Simon Templar, created by British-Chinese author Leslie Charteris in the 1928 novel Meet the Tiger (3,5) |
| ALADDIN | '[S]on of Mustapha the tailor' in the Arabian Nights, who married Princess Badroulbadour (7) |
| GEORGESMILEY | Long-running fictional hero who made his debut in "Call for the Dead" |
| THOUSAND | One - and One Nights; stories told by Scheherazade to her husband (8) |
| ROC | Giant bird of Arabian mythology said to be able to carry off full-grown elephants for food, encountered by Sinbad the Sailor in the Arabian Nights (3) |
| HORATIO | What is the first name of CS Forester's fictional hero, Hornblower? (7) |
| AADMI | ___ Nights: stories everyone likes to hear ? (7) |
| ALLADIN | Get a boy in, reportedly, in the Arabian nights (7) |
