| TONYHANCOCK | Living at 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, this comic ruled the roost with Sid James (4,7) |
| HANCOCKSHALFHOUR | BBC radio comedy written by Galton and Simpson, set at 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam |
| CHEAM | Tony Hancock lived at 23 Railway Cuttings, East -- (5) |
| UNCONTROLLED | Wild organisation ruled the roost (12) |
| HENS | They roost with roosters |
| THIS | She toils with bushes arranged in 70s sitcom with Sid James (5,4,5) |
| HOUSE | She toils with bushes arranged in 70s sitcom with Sid James (5,4,5) |
| BLESS | She toils with bushes arranged in 70s sitcom with Sid James (5,4,5) |
| TONY | Which English comedian and actor starred in a radio comedy with Sid James? (4,7) |
| HANCOCK | Which English comedian and actor starred in a radio comedy with Sid James? (4,7) |
| BLESSTHISHOUSE | 1970s ITV sitcom with Sid James and Diana Coupland |
| RAILWAY | (and 20 across) The road in East Cheam where 9 down 'lived' in his radio shows (7) |
| TRUANCY | French leave genuine French city, cutting east then north (7) |
| SLOTMACHINE | Lost in Cheam perhaps by the automatic vendor (4,7) |
| FILBERT | Nut to satisfy the boy at 23, by the sound of it (7) |
| IRONMAN | 2008 film adaptation starring Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark, the alter ego of this comic book super |
| JOHNCANDY | Born 1950, this comic actor probably liked anything sweet, since he had the perfect surname for someone born on Halloween |
| JUNE | Canadian actress Ms. Storey (b.1918 - d.1991) of the disaster movie at #23- |
| JPMORGAN | Founder of a bank with a former HQ at 23 Wall Street |
| VENDINGMACHINE | Victor at a close in Cheam possibly has thing to dispense small items (7,7) |
