| STARLIGHT | Illuminating chart topper written and produced solely by Dave (9) |
| BEAUTIFUL | 2003 number one single by Christina Aguilera written and produced by Linda Perry (9) |
| ENTOURAGE | 2015 comedy film written, directed and produced by Doug Ellin (9) |
| TRUNCHEON | Invented by Dave Harrell, it's longer than a speci waggler (9) |
| ROCKETEER | 'The ---', 1991 film based on a 'graphic novel' by Dave Stevens (9) |
| THEDAMNED | Punk band founded and fronted by Dave Vanian |
| LIGHTNING | A fulgurous flash or fork, feared by an astraphobic and produced in a cumulonimbus, aka thundercloud (9) |
| DEVELOPED | Built up and produced photograph (9) |
| KICKSTART | BBC motorcycle trials game show that was hosted by Dave Lee Travis |
| NORMACROW | Warren Fox's gangster mother, shot dead by Dave Williams (5,4) |
| ONMYOWN | 1986 top ten hit for Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald, written and produced by Burt Bacharach and his then-wife Carole Bayer Sager (2,2,3) |
| MYGUY | 1964 number-one hit single by Mary Wells, written and produced by Smokey Robinson |
| UPSIDEDOWN | 1980 Diana Ross top ten hit single written and produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards |
| SHAMPOO | 1975 film starring, co-written and produced by Warren Beatty (7) |
| AVATAR | Directed, written and produced by James Cameron, the highest-grossing film of all time after Titanic |
| NUNAVUT | Largest and newest territory of Canada, created in 1999 and governed solely by Inuit (7) |
| TREADLE | But is it manipulated solely by the seamstress? |
| GLIDER | Aircraft supported solely by air (6) |
| BICORN | Grotesquely fat beast of early French literature that existed solely by devouring virtuous husbands |
| AVIETTE | A plane powered solely by the aviator (7) |
