| VILELY | Half of view Dutch painter portrayed in bad way |
| DALI | Painter portrayed by Adrien Brody in "Midnight in Paris" |
| AWRY | Crooked king is in bad way (4) |
| ASYOUWERE | Order in bad way, euros heading for extinction |
| INSTIL | Inject into list in bad way |
| CRESSIDA | A character portrayed in one of Shakespeare's plays; or, the first name of the author of How to Train Your Dragon (8) |
| NEDKELLY | Australian bushranger and folk hero portrayed in film by Mick Jagger in 1970 and Heath Ledger in 200 |
| PREDATOR | Portrayed, in a way, with no end of artistry, one animal after another? (8) |
| BADER | Second World War RAF flying ace portrayed in Paul Brickhill's book Reach for the Sky and in a film of the same name (5) |
| LOHENGRIN | Portrayed in a Wagnerian opera, knight who travels in a swan-drawn boat to rescue heroine Elsa of Brabant (9) |
| OUR | The Battle of Iwo Jima is portrayed in Clint Eastwood's film, Flags Of ... Fathers |
| ANNE | Queen born in St James's Palace in 1665, portrayed in the film The Favourite by Olivia Colman (4) |
| MOUSE | Type of rodent portrayed in E. B. White's Stuart Little or mentioned in A Visit from St Nicholas (5) |
| TROIKA | The type of sleigh portrayed in one movement of Prokoviev's Lieutenant Kije suite |
| ERICLIDDELL | Scottish athlete whose win in the 400 metres at the 1924 Olympics is portrayed in the film Chariots of Fire (4,7) |
| RICHARD | - III; last king of the House of York who is portrayed in Shakespearean plays and John Rous' armorial roll-chronicle and Historic Regum Angliae (7) |
| LIDDELL | Surname of the Scottish athlete portrayed in the 1981 film 'Chariots of Fire' (7) |
| COHN | Lawyer portrayed in "Angels in America" |
| OTT | Mel who was portrayed in "Field of Dreams" |
| ROBO | Type of "cop" portrayed in a 1987 film |