| 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 -------) |
| NORMAN | Canadian director whose films include In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof and Moonstruck (6,7) |
| JEWISON | Canadian director whose films include In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof and Moonstruck (6,7) |
| SIDNEY | In the Heat of the Night first name |
| BUBBA | Alan Autry's role on "In the Heat of the Night" |
| SUNBURN | Result of having overdone it in the heat of the moment? (7) |
| BOWEN | Author of The House in Paris, The Death of the Heart and The Heat of the Day (5) |
| ICARUS | Fantastic winger brought down in the heat of the moment |
| ARSON | Is it committed in the heat of the moment? (5) |
| BASK | Enjoy lying in the heat of the sun |
| WARMTH | Affection felt in the heat of the moment? (6) |
| NAPALM | Weapon used in the heat of the moment? |
