| ANDYCAPP | Working-class comic-strip character created by Reg Smythe in 1957 (4,4) |
| CAPP | Andy ...., cartoon character created by Reg Smythe (4) |
| OLIVEOYL | Comic-strip character created by US cartoonist E. C. Segar in 1919; originally the girlfriend of Harold Hamgravy (5,3) |
| MANDRAKE | Comic strip character created by Lee Falk, the hypnotically gesturing ... the Magician |
| MOONMULLINS | Comic strip character created by Frank Willard in 1923 and continued by Ferd Johnson from 1958 until |
| RUPERT | -- Bear, children's comic strip character created by Mary Tourtel in 1920 (6) |
| RUPERTBEAR | Comic strip character created by Mary Tourtel (6,4) |
| SAD | WWII comic strip character created by Sgt George Baker, ... Sack |
| MILQUETOAST | Caspar --, comic strip character created by US cartoonist H. T. Webster (11) |
| BUCKROGERS | Comic strip character created by Philip Francis Nowlan (4,6) |
| FLASHGORDON | Comic strip character created by Alex Raymond (5,6) |
| DILBERT | Comic strip character created by Scott Adams (7) |
| KAMET | Mountain in the Himalayas that was first climbed by an expedition led by Frank Smythe in 1931 (5) |
| CAPS | Andy, comic strip creation of Reg Smythe (4) |
| LULU | "Little" comic strip character created in 1935 |
| TROTTIER | One of four Islanders to win the Conn Smythe same trophy |
| ACHILLESHEEL | The ___, 1996 novel by Reg Gadney (8,4) |
| VINEGAR | Sour liquid used by Reg, vain, possibly (7) |
| REGISTERS | The records kept by Reg and his sister (9) |
| PURGE | A clear-out backed up by Reg perhaps (5) |
