| PONTI | Italian film producer and husband of Sophia Loren, Carlo ... was born on December 11, 1913 |
| CARLO | _ Ponti, film producer and husband of Sophia Loren (5) |
| CARLOPONTI | Italian film director and husband of Sophia Loren (5,5) |
| ARNEZ | Actor, producer and husband of Lucille Ball, Desi - (5) |
| TYLER | American comedy actress Mary ... Moore was born on December 29, 1936 |
| URI | Spoon-bending illusionist ... Geller was born on December 20, 1946 |
| GELLER | Spoonbending illusionist Uri ... was born on December 20, 1946 |
| ACELA | This high-speed train will begin service on December 11, according to Amtrak |
| JAM | They played their final gig in Brighton on December 11, 1982 (3) |
| NASA | Agency whose Orion spacecraft splashed down on December 11: Abbr. |
| ITALY | The country of Sophia Loren, Monica Bellucci and Federico Fellini (5) |
| DINO | What was the first name of Italian film producer De Laurentiis? (4) |
| NEAPOLITANS | Cakes made for the likes of Sophia Loren? (11) |
| CORMAN | Roger, film producer and director of 1960's The Fall of the House of Usher (6) |
| SAGITTARIUS | Birth sign you would be if born on December 1 (11) |
| ENROLS | Signs up to see opening of Sophia Loren play (6) |
| CISSEUS | Thracian king who was father of Theano, the wife of Antenor, and husband of Telecleia, a daughter of King Ilus of Troy, as related in Homer's Iliad (7) |
| PRINCESSREGENT | The role of Sophia Alekseyevna in Russia before Ivan V and Peter I became joint tsars |
| EREBUS | Primordial god of darkness in Greek mythology, son of Chaos and brother and husband of Nyx (Night) (6) |
| DEMILLE | Born in 1881, which US film producer and director is best known for his spectacular films based on the Bible? (2,5) |