| GO | "Jack Reacher: Never ___ Back"; Tom Cruise film |
| NEVER | "Jack Reacher: __ Go Back"; Tom Cruise film |
| TOM | "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back" star Cruise |
| COBIE | _ Smulders, star of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (5) |
| BACK | "Jack Reacher: Never Go -" |
| JACK | Tom Cruise action adventure, ___ Reacher: Never Go Back (4) |
| MOTIF | Back Tom, if required for a design |
| CATNIP | About a pint knocked back, Tom loves it! (6) |
| ONESHOT | Novel in Lee Child's Jack Reacher series adapted into a film with Tom Cruise (3,4) |
| CRUISE | Tom ___, star of the 2012 film Jack Reacher (6) |
| CHILD | Pen name of a novelist whose character Jack Reacher is portrayed by Tom Cruise in two movies (5) |
| COURTNEY | Aussie actor who stars in Jack Reacher and Insurgent, Jai ___ (8) |
| LEE | British author Child who created Jack Reacher |
| TOMCRUISE | TheMummy and Jack Reacher:NeverGoBack actor (3,6) |
| DIETRYING | Second of the Jack Reacher novels written by Lee Child |
| LEECHILD | Author of the Jack Reacher novel series (3,5) |
| ROSAMUND | ___ Pike, Jack Reacher actress (8) |
| JAI | Australian actor of Divergent and Jack Reacher, - Courtney (3) |
| TALL | Like Jack Reacher (in the books, at least) |
| JUROR | Our suspect framed by Jack Reacher's principal court figure (5) |
