| RALPHBELLAMY | American actor whose 65-year career included the films His Girl Friday. Rosemary's Baby and Trading Places (5,7) |
| MERV | Australia cricketer nicknamed Fruitfly whose Test career included figures of 8-87 and 5-130 against West Indies at Perth in 1988 (4,6) |
| HUGHES | Australia cricketer nicknamed Fruitfly whose Test career included figures of 8-87 and 5-130 against West Indies at Perth in 1988 (4,6) |
| CECILB | Early director of spectacular films (his last was The Ten Commandments), ... DeMille (5,1) |
| LNS | Canadian star of 'Naked Gun' movies ...his initials-sharers |
| REIGN | Period of rule, such as the Queen's record-breaking 65-year-long one (5) |
| PETERCUSHING | Actor whose likeness was digitally recreated to film his scenes as Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One: 2 wds. |
| SSA | 65-year-old agcy.? |
| TARNISH | Film his capsizing on the lake (7) |
| THEBIGLEBOWSKI | Film his GT bike crashing, sustaining dislocated elbow (3,3,8) |
| ROSALINDRUSSELL | American actress who played fast-talking newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday |
| GRANT | Cary ___, star of films North by Northwest and His Girl Friday (5) |
| BELLAMY | "His Girl Friday" actor Ralph |
| SCREWBALL | Like the comedy in His Girl Friday (9) |
| IRALEVIN | American novelist whose works included Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives (3,5) |
| CASSAVETES | John ___, actor whose films include Rosemary's Baby and The Dirty Dozen |
| ROSALIND | Cary Grant's romantic comedy co-star Ms. Russell in "His Girl Friday" (1940) |
| CADS | Describes Thomas H. Church in Sideways & Cary Grant in His Girl Friday. |
| CARY | Rosalind's "His Girl Friday" costar |
| POLANSKI | Controversial Polish-French film director whose films included Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown (8) |