| ASHMAN | "Under the Sea" Oscar-winner |
| CASEY | Manchester by the Sea Oscar winner, ___ Affleck (5) |
| MICHELLE | With 39-Across Manchester by the Sea Oscar nominee who played the title dancer in 45-Across |
| PLAICE | "The carp play the harp / The ___ play the bass": "Under the Sea" lyrics |
| VERNE | Science-fiction pioneer whose novels include Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days (5) |
| ALAN | Music composer and songwriter ___ Menken whose song Under the Sea from the movie The Little Mermaid won him an Oscar in 1989 |
| HOWARDASHMAN | I wrote the lyrics to "Under the Sea" -- Alan Menken did the music |
| NEMO | Captain of the submarine Nautilus in the Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (4) |
| JULES | Author famous for Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, etc. (5,5) |
| TAHITI | Island called the "queen of the Pacific" in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" |
| NAUTILUS | Ancient marine mollusc and the name of the submarine in Jules Verne's '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' (8) |
| MCFLY | Guitarist at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance |
| MERLOT | Fate under the sea, some say, in the drink (6) |
| REEF | Chain of rocks lying just under the sea surface, as in Narcissus 'Lighthouse ___' and the Oriental poppy 'Coral ___' (4) |
| SUBMARINES | Inventions that inspired the sci-fi novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne |
| JULESVERNE | French author whose novels include Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty |
| SUBMARINE | The Nautilus in Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (9) |
| GIANTSQUID | Creature that attacked the Nautilus in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" |
| DISNEYCRUISECREWS | Cast-members-who-may-sing-"Under-the-Sea"-at-sea? |
| NEMOS | Namesakes of the captain in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" |
