| STEIGER | "In the Heat of the Night" Oscar winner |
| RODSTEIGER | "In the Heat of the Night" Oscar winner |
| GABLE | "It Happened One Night" Oscar winner |
| TIBBS | Virgil, character in the novel In the Heat of the Night (5) |
| ROD | Best Actor Oscar winner for In The Heat Of The Night (3) |
| QUINCY | Film-score composer of The Color Purple and In The Heat Of The Night, ... Jones |
| POITIER | Sidney ___, star of In the Heat of the Night (7) |
| NORMANJEWISON | Film director who won Oscars for In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof, and Moonstruck |
| OCONNOR | Played police chief Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night (Carroll -------) |
| JEWISON | Canadian director whose films include In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof and Moonstruck (6,7) |
| NORMAN | Canadian director whose films include In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof and Moonstruck (6,7) |
| SLAP | Sidney Poitier would do it to a white man in, In The Heat of the Night. |
| SIDNEY | In the Heat of the Night first name |
| BUBBA | Alan Autry's role on "In the Heat of the Night" |
| BOWEN | Author of The House in Paris, The Death of the Heart and The Heat of the Day (5) |
| INTHE | __ ___ Heat Of The Night: winner of 1967 Oscar for Best Picture (2,3) |
| THE | "In ___ Heat of the Night" |
| AGAKHAN | The hereditary title of the heat of the Ismaili sect of Muslims (3,1) |
| BAKE | To cook, dry or harden by the heat of the sun or fire, as practised by humans since mastering the flame; a party in the US; or, a Scottish biscuit (4) |
| SUNBURN | Result of having overdone it in the heat of the moment? (7) |
