| KINER | Hall-of-Famer Ralph |
| BAKSHI | Ralph, director of the 1978 animated film The Lord of the Rings (6) |
| THRENODY | Poem or song of mourning or lamentation such as that written by Ralph Waldo Emerson on the death of |
| JOHNC | Carnage actor who provides the voice of Ralph in Wreck-It Ralph, ___ Reilly (4,1) |
| POLO | Game on pony back played in a series of chukkas; or, one of the Ralph Lauren Corporation clothing brands (4) |
| ELLISON | Ralph ?, author of 1952 novel Invisible Man (7) |
| BANGZOOM | Part of a Ralph Kramden quotation |
| APPLE | Ralph pulled alternative piece of fruit (5) |
| SARAH | Silverman of "Wreck-It Ralph" |
| NADER | Ralph of the US Green Party |
| ESSAYIST | Type of writer, e.g. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| ART | "The creation of beauty," per Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| RAME | Boy's name, variant of Ralph (4) |
| ALPHABET | From Ralph, a better set of letters (8) |
| FIENNES | Surname of actor brothers Ralph and Joseph (7) |
| READER | Ralph ?, Somerset-born impresario; originator of the Scouting Gang Show (6) |
| TYPESETTING | The sort of guy who compiles crosswords? Ralph may make it difficult (11) |
| VOLDEMORT | Character played by Ralph Fiennes in four of the Harry Potter films |
| KISMET | Fate of Ralph Nickleby's son, abandoned and ultimately, lost |
| GAY | Peterkin ?, survivor, with Ralph Rover and Jack Martin, of a shipwreck in R M Ballantyne novel The Coral Island (3) |
