| SAMSMITH | Singer of Writing's On The Wall, the Spectre Bond film theme song (3,5) |
| GRAFFITI | The writing's on the wall - the Irish love a party with some spirit, ideally |
| SPECTRE | Sam Smith won an Oscar for this Bond film's theme song (7) |
| FLYING | "Those magnificent men in their ... machines" (film theme song) (6) |
| DONBLACK | English lyricist whose film theme songs co-written with composer John Barry include Born Free and Diamonds Are Forever (3,5) |
| THUG | Tupac: A - - - Life, a collection of writings on the rapper Tupac Shakur published in 2005 (4) |
| WRITING | If seen on the wall the end is nigh |
| ADELE | Singer of the 2012 Bond film theme |
| DURANDURAN | A View To A Kill Bond film theme group (5,5) |
| PARKER | Director, writer and producer whose films include Pink Floyd: The Wall, The Commitments and Angela's Ashes (6) |
| GRAFFITO | Try to squeeze tariff, otherwise the writing's on the wall (8) |
| PUSSYCAT | What's New ____ ?, a film theme sung by Tom Jones released in 1965 (8) |
| TREATISE | Formal piece of writing on a particular subject (8) |
| EPITOMES | Typical examples of sanctimonious writings on MDMA (8) |
| AURELIUS | Marcus - - -, Roman Emperor 161-180 AD, known for his writings on how a Stoic should live (8) |
| SGRAFFITI | Son with writings on the wall forming decorative works (9) |
| SCREED | Long piece of writing on the origin of some belief system (6) |
| SAM | "Writing's On The Wall" singer Smith |
| ARTIST | See 1D. His writing's on the wall (8,6) |
| RUNE | Bit of writing on the wall? |
