| SMERSH | Soviet counter-intelligence umbrella organisation fictionalised in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels (6) |
| CASINOROYALE | The first of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, published in 1953 (6,6) |
| PLO | Al Fatah umbrella organisation (1,1,1) |
| HOLDINGCOMPANY | Umbrella organisation confining some soldiers (7,7) |
| ODDJOB | A henchman in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Goldfinger (6) |
| WINT | Accomplice of the assassin Kidd in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever (1956) (4) |
| LIVEANDLETDIE | Second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series (4,3,3,3) |
| DRNO | Sixth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, but the first to be made into a film (2,2) |
| NEGRONI | Gin, vermouth and Campari cocktail drunk by Ian Fleming's James Bond in the 1960 story Risico (7) |
| ROYALE | Novel debut of Ian Fleming's James Bond (6,6) |
| CASINO | Novel debut of Ian Fleming's James Bond (6,6) |
| CICERO | Orator fictionalised in three Robert Harris novels |
| CYRANODEBERGERAC | French writer and dramatist, fictionalised in an 1897 play by Edmond Rostand |
| DUNCANI | Fictionalised in Shakespeare's play Macbeth, king of Scotland 1034-40 (6,1) |
| BARNUM | Impresario whose life was fictionalised in the film The Greatest Showman |
| MONEYPENNY | Miss ?, secretary to M in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming |
| SPECTRE | Fictional criminal organisation featured in James Bond novels (7) |
| MOZART | Fictionalised in a play by Peter Shaffer, a classical composer who wrote Apollo et Hyacinthus when he was 11 and around 600 further compositions throughout his career including RequiemA (6) |
| BOND | Ian Fleming's James |
| LEITER | Felix ---, CIA operative in Ian Fleming's Bond novels (6) |
