| RIVER | 'The ---', 1958 Best Picture Oscar winner (6,2,3,5,4) |
| KWAI | 'The ---', 1958 Best Picture Oscar winner (6,2,3,5,4) |
| BRIDGEONTHE | 'The ---', 1958 Best Picture Oscar winner (6,2,3,5,4) |
| GIGI | 1958 Best Picture Oscar winner, named for a French girl |
| TATI | Director and star of the 1958 Best Foreign Language Film |
| UGLY | "The ___ American" (1958 best seller) |
| THEUGLYAMERICAN | 1958 best seller by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick |
| NIVEN | 1958 Best Actor David |
| DEFIANTONES | 'The ------ ', 1958 Stanley Kramer film which was a Best Picture Oscar nominee (7,4) |
| ANDREMORELL | Actor who played Professor Quatermass in the 1958 BBC series and later was Dr Watson opposite Peter Cushing's Sherlock Holmes in the 1959 film The Hound of the Baskervilles (5,6) |
| NAT | Forename of the captain of the Bolton Wanderers team who won the 1958 FA Cup final |
| SIGNORET | Simone, French actress noted for her role as the jilted older woman in the 1958 film Room at the Top (8) |
| PROVINE | Dorothy, actress who played the title role in the 1958 biopic The Bonnie Parker Story (7) |
| BORIS | Russian author forced to decline the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (5) |
| PASTERNAK | Russian author forced to decline the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (9) |
| UNITED | 2011 BBC film about the 'Busby Babes' and the aftermath of the 1958 Munich air disaster (6) |
| SHEB | Wooley with the 1958 #1 hit "The Purple People Eater" |
| OTIS | Johnny with the 1958 hit "Willie and the Hand Jive" |
| DIDI | Golden Ball winner at the 1958 World Cup finals |
| CHANTELS | The ___ (girl group with the 1958 hit song "Maybe") |
