| MCLEAN | "American Pie" songwriter Don |
| AMERICANPIE | 1971 album and single by singer-songwriter Don Mclean (8,3) |
| SUVARI | Star of American Pie and American Beauty, Mena - (6) |
| RATEDR | Like "American Pie," "American Psycho" and "American Beauty" |
| EUGENE | American Pie and Schitt's Creek actor, ... Levy (6) |
| ALYSON | - Hannigan, starred in the American Pie series and as Willow Rosenberg in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (6) |
| LYONNE | Natasha of "American Pie" |
| JANINE | Stifler's mom in the "American Pie" series |
| MENA | Actress Suvari of 'American Beauty' and 'American Pie' |
| AGO | Fifth word of Don McLean's "American Pie" |
| DONMCLEAN | "American Pie" performer (3,6) |
| CHEVYTOTHELEVEE | Lyric from Don McLean's "American Pie" |
| BUDDYHOLLY | Honoree in Don McLean's song "American Pie" |
| MENASUVARI | "American Beauty" and "American Pie" co-star |
| BIGBOPPER | One of the subjects of Don McLean's "American Pie" |
| RYE | Word rhymed with "Pie," "dry" and "die," in the "American Pie" chorus |
| CHEVY | American Pie singer Don McLean drove his to the levee but the levee was dry |
| META | In American Pie, Don Mclean sang, 'I ... girl who sang the blues, And asked her for some happy news' (3,1) |
| EUGENELEVY | He played Jason Biggs's dad in the American Pie movies (6,4) |
| SAGA | The ___ Begins song by Weird Al Yankovic which is a parody of American Pie by Don McLean |
