| CRESTARUN | "The ... ...", 1965 stage play by NF Simpson (6,3) |
| HOMECOMING | The -, 1965 stage play by Harold Pinter (10) |
| THECRESTARUN | 1965 stage play by N F Simpson (3,6,3) |
| SPEAKING | 1965 stage play by Alan Ayckbourn (0) |
| RELATIVELYSPEAKING | 1965 stage play by Alan Ayckbourn |
| APATRIOTFORME | 1965 stage play by John Osborne |
| SAVED | 1965 stage play by Edward Bond (5) |
| RELATIVELY | 1965 stage play by Alan Ayckbourn (10,8) |
| LOOT | 1965 stage play by Joe Orton which ran on Broadway in 1968 (4) |
| YESTERDAY | Song by The Beatles, featured on the 1965 album Help! (9) |
| BOND | Edward ?, author of 1965 stage play Saved (4) |
| EDWARDBOND | Author of 1965 stage play Saved (6,4) |
| NEILSIMON | American playwright and screenwriter whose works include the 1965 play The Odd Couple (4,5) |
| HALLIWELL | Leslie --, compiler of the 1965 'The Filmgoer's Companion' (9) |
| PURPOSEOF | "The ___ a man is to love a woman" (lyric from the 1965 hit "Game of Love") |
| DETWEILER | Max --, Richard Haydn's role in the 1965 film 'The Sound of Music' (9) |
| MINUETING | Classical piece that's the basis of the 1965 hit "A Lover's Concerto" |
| SHOLOKHOV | Mikhail, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature (9) |
| LEEMARVIN | 20th Century American actor who won an Oscar for his dual roles in the 1965 film Cat Ballou (3,6) |
| CATBALLOU | Film for which Lee Marvin won the 1965 Best Actor Oscar (3,6) |
