| SAMUELL | With 37-Across, actor with 11 film roles turned into action figures, including Nick Fury and Shaft: 2 wds. |
| GARYOLDMAN | Actor with nine film roles turned into action figures, including Sirius Black and Dracula: 2 wds. |
| LIAMNEESON | Actor with five film roles turned into action figures, including Darkman and Qui-Gon Jinn: 2 wds. |
| DONCHEADLE | House of lies actor with 11 Emmy nominations, but no wins: 2 wds. |
| PAULREISER | Mad About You actor with 11 Emmy nominations, but no wins: 2 wds. |
| HARROW | Farm gear needs horse and shaft |
| ERIC | With 37-Across actor and Spamalot writer who cocreated Monty Python's Flying Circus 50 years ago |
| DEMOND | With 37-Across, actor who played Lamont on 44-Across |
| WILLIAM | With 37-Across actor who played Principal George Feeny on Boy Meets World |
| ANTHONY | With 31-Across, actor with the same initials as Alfred Hitchcock, his role in "Hitchcock" |
| HAMMOND | (and 26 Across) Actor with car collecting working daughter's instrument (7,5) |
| STEVEN | With 22-Across, actor with a black belt in aikido |
| BRENT | George ___, co-star with Bette Davis in 11 films, including "Dark Victory" and "Jezebel" |
| NICOLSON | Author of Diaries and Letters and biographies of figures including Tennyson, Byron and Swinburne who lived at Sissinghurst Castle with his wife Vita Sackville-West (8) |
| METRO | Parisian rapid transport system with stations named after figures including Charles de Gaulle, Marie and Pierre Curie and Victor Hugo (5) |
| LELY | Artist who popularised mezzotint in England and painted the Windsor Beauties and portraits of figures including Charles II and Henry Vane the Younger (4) |
| SAMUELLJACKSON | "The Hateful Eight" actor who plays Nick Fury in "Captain Marvel": 3 wds. |
| GARDEN | General name for an outdoor area associated with figures including Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, Sir Roy Strong, Percy Thrower and Alan Titchmarsh (6) |
| WATTS | Victorian symbolist artist who painted Hope and portraits of figures including Gladstone, Tennyson and his wife of 10 months Ellen Terry (5) |
| STREEP | Meryl -; actress noted for portrayals of figures including Margaret Thatcher and Emmeline Pankhurst (6) |
