| CASTLEHOWARD | Stately home in North Yorkshire used as the fictional Brideshead in adaptations of Brideshead Revisited |
| HOWARD | Castle -; designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, house in North Yorkshire used as the set for on-screen adaptations of Brideshead Revisited (6) |
| OTLEY | Yorkshire town used as the fictional place Hotten in the ITV soap Emmerdale |
| SETTLED | Made one's home in North Yorkshire town before beginning of December (7) |
| WAUGH | Author of Brideshead Revisited who fictionalised his career in the Royal Marines and the Royal Horse Guards in the Sword of Honour trilogy (5) |
| ESHTON | Stately home in North Yorks giving name to WR 'Hall' 6942(6) |
| ARIEL | One in adaptation of Lear showing the spirit of Shakespeare (5) |
| SETTLE | Make one's home in north Yorkshire town (6) |
| TORTOISE | Known collectively as a creep, a chelonian such as the fictional example that wins a race against a hare in one of Aesop's fables (8) |
| CRESSIDA | Woman who deserts her lover Troilus for Diomedes in medieval adaptations of the story of Troy (8) |
| ASTEROIDAL | Describing the stars in adaptation of radio tales (10) |
| CLAIRDELUNE | 2's work, used originally in adaptation of Cinderella |
| MODISTE | A fashionable dressmaker or milliner such as the fictional example Madame Delacroix portrayed in Bridgerton (7) |
| ROBERTPATTINSON | Actor who plays Edward Cullen in the film adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels |
| ROB | Welsh actor who voices various characters in the BBC adaptations of Julia Donaldson's books, - Brydon (3) |
| CHAMBERPOT | Where movement performed by orchestra in adaptation of Macbeth (7,3) |
| OXFORD | City on the Thames in which Evelyn Waugh set parts of Brideshead Revisited; England's capital city d |
| SCACCHI | Actress Greta ... plays Cara in the 2008 film version of Brideshead Revisited |
| SEBASTIAN | Forename of Charles Ryder's friend Lord Flyte of Brideshead Castle in a classic novel by Evelyn Waugh (9) |
| EYRE | English director whose films include Iris, Notes on a Scandal and adaptations of Ian McEwan's The Ploughman's Lunch and The Children Act (4) |
