| BRACKNELL | Lady ---, character in The Importance of Being Earnest (9) |
| BOUNTIFUL | Lady ---, character in Farquhar's play The Beaux' Stratagem (9) |
| RIGMAROLE | Equip old lady character in Much Ado About Nothing? (9) |
| LADYBRACKNELL | Character in The Importance of Being Earnest (4,9) |
| ALGERNON | First name of Mr Moncrieff, a character in The Importance of Being Earnest (8) |
| PRISM | Female character in The Importance of Being Earnest - optical device (5) |
| MISSPRISM | Governess in the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being Earnest (4,5) |
| HANDBAG | "A ___?!" - line spoken by Lady Bracknell in The Importance Of Being Earnest (1895) |
| LAETITIA | First name of Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest (8) |
| JUDI | ___ Dench, 14A's co-star in The Importance Of Being Earnest (4) |
| ERNEST | Worthing in "The Importance of Being Earnest" |
| FAIRFAX | Gwendolen's surname in The Importance of Being Earnest (7) |
| AMUSEMENT | "One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any ___ in life": "The Importance of Being Earnest" |
| DOOLITTLE | Eliza ___ (My Fair Lady character) |
| EVANS | Actress Dame Edith ... took the role of Lady Bracknell in The Importance Of Being Earnest |
| AUGUSTA | Lady -- Bracknell, character in Oscar Wilde's play 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (7) |
| EDITHEVANS | Actress who played Lady Bracknell in the 1952 film The Importance of Being Earnest (5,5) |
| SETGREATSTOREBY | Expression meaning 'to believe in the importance of' (3,5,5,2) |
| TRIFLER | Pudding that's right for one unaware of "The Importance of Being Earnest"? |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish writer who wrote the play The Importance Of Being Earnest (5,5) |
