| ANDYCAPP | One of Shatterford's lakes, and Daily Mirror comic strip (4,4) |
| GARTH | 1949-to-1997 Daily Mirror comic strip of an action hero (5) |
| NORMANPETT | English artist; creator in 1932 of Daily Mirror comic strip Jane's Journal |
| DIALYSIS | Bloody treatment and daily abuse by sibling (8) |
| MICHIGAN | US state known for its lakes and motor industry |
| LLANELLI | Left road over lakes and isle in Welsh town (8) |
| LANTERNS | Objects set adrift in lakes and rivers during the Hungry Ghost Festival |
| PLANKTON | Drifting organisms in oceans, lakes and rivers (8) |
| RUSTBELT | Term for the region straddling the upper NE United States, the Great Lakes and the Midwest States |
| JAMESON | Journalist and broadcaster who edited the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Star and News Of The World in the 1970s and '80s (5,7) |
| NEIL | Andrew -, journalist and former presenter of This Week and Daily Politics (4) |
| CECILKING | Chairman of Daily Mirror Newspapers and Bank of England director (1901-87) |
| RIOJA | In the Mirror, comic Brand plugs impression of wine (5) |
| ROSIE | --- Boycott, life peer, a former editor of The Independent and Daily Express |
| JANE | Name of the girl in a 1932-1959 comic strip in The Daily Mirror (4) |
| CAPP | What was the surname of the Daily Mirror cartoon couple Flo and Andy? (4) |
| KEITH | Late author, playwright and Daily Mail columnist (5,10) |
| WATERHOUSE | Late author, playwright and Daily Mail columnist (5,10) |
| MORGAN | English journalist and TV presenter sacked as Editor of the Daily Mirror in 2004 (5,6) |
| PIERS | English journalist and TV presenter sack as Editor of the Daily Mirror in 2004 (5,6) |
