| PETERLORRE | "The Maltese Falcon" actor |
| LORRE | "The Maltese Falcon" actor |
| PROP | The Maltese Falcon in "The Maltese Falcon," e.g. |
| SAMSPADE | Created by Dashiell Hammett in 1930 and played by Humphrey Bogart in the 1941 film, who was the sleuth in The Maltese Falcon? (3,5) |
| BOGIE | 'The Maltese Falcon' actor, informally |
| FATMAN | 'The Maltese Falcon' villain, with 'the' |
| ELISHA | Actor Cook Jr. of The Maltese Falcon |
| SYDNEYGSTREET | Actor in "The Maltese Falcon" and "Casablanca" |
| COWAN | "The Maltese Falcon"(1941) actor Jerome |
| BOGART | Humphrey ___, The Maltese Falcon actor (6) |
| SPADE | Dashiell Hammett's detective, Sam ..., comments on the Maltese Falcon that it's the "stuff that dre |
| GREENSTREET | Sydney ___, actor who played Kasper Gutman in 1941 film-noir The Maltese Falcon (11) |
| HAMMETT | Dashiell, author of the novel The Maltese Falcon (7) |
| PETER | Actor who played Joel Cairo in 1941 film drama The Maltese Falcon (5,5) |
| SAM | Central character in the Raymond Chandler novel The Maltese Falcon (3,5) |
| HUSTON | Director and screenwriter of The Maltese Falcon whose grandson starred in the 2016 film Ben-Hur (6) |
| ASTOR | What surname links Nancy, the first woman to sit in Parliament, and Mary, The Maltese Falcon actress? (5) |
| GUTMAN | Casper, character in the film The Maltese Falcon (6) |
| DASHIELL | _ Hammett, US author of the detective novel The Maltese Falcon (1930) |
| DASHIELLHAMMETT | Author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man (8,7) |
