| RODDYMCDOWALL | Actor who starred as Galen in 1974 US television series Planet of the Apes |
| RODDY | Actor who starred as Galen in 1974 US television series Planet of the Apes (5,8) |
| MCDOWALL | Actor who starred as Galen in 1974 US television series Planet of the Apes (5,8) |
| GALEN | Young chimpanzee played by U.S. actor Roddy McDowall in the TV series Planet of the Apes (5) |
| APES | Classic film made into a TV series (Planet of the ----) |
| TEXASCHAINSAWMASSACRE | The ____ was a notorious 1974 US horror film involving cannibalistic psychopaths (5,5,3,8) |
| ABBOTT | Bud --, 1897-1974, US comedy actor (6) |
| WASANYGOOD | "They blame their tools: why did the carpenter make the bed so badly, if he ____?" (Galen) |
| BENNY | Jack --, 1894-1974, US comedian (5) |
| TREVINO | Lee, 1974 US PGA golf champion (7) |
| ELLINGTON | Duke ___ (1899 - 1974), US pianist and bandleader (9) |
| COLIC | Infant condition for which the second-century physician Galen recommended opium |
| EARTH | David Attenborough series Planet ___ |
| RINGLEADER | In addition, Galen dissected brains (10) |
| MADS | _ Mikkelsen, played Galen Erso in Rogue One (4) |
| RUPP | Galen, U.S. long-distance runner born in 1986 (4) |
| ANALGESIA | Medicine in Asia Galen produced |
| CONGENITAL | Study by Galen vigorously maintaining it's present at birth (10) |
| DOC | Gunsmoke's Galen Adams |
| ANGLE | Galen discovers a new way to fish (5) |