| DAHLIA | 'The Blue ___' (1946 film) |
| IVERS | "The Strange Love of Martha ___" (1946 film) |
| MIRROR | "The Dark _", 1946 film starring Olivia de Havilland as twin sisters (6) |
| BLUEDAHLIA | The ___ ___, 1946 film with screenplay by Raymond Chandler (4,6) |
| SLEEP | The Big ___, 1946 film starring Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe (5) |
| BETE | "La Belle et la __": 1946 film |
| WHALE | The African elephant may be the biggest animal on earth, but take a trip on a ship and you'll discover that the blue ___ is the largest in the world |
| RIBAND | The Blue ___ is awarded to the liner which makes the fastest crossing of the Atlantic. (6) |
| WED | "Easy to ___" (1946 Lucille Ball film) |
| OTRA | "La ___," 1946 Dolores del Rio film |
| TIME | "Till the End of ___" (1946 Robert Mitchum movie) |
| MOONLIGHT | The ___, 1946 novel by Joyce Cary (9) |
| RIDGE | The Blue ___ Mountains Of Virginia, location sung about in the Laurel and Hardy song The Trail Of Th |
| ANGEL | The Blue ___, Marlene Dietrich film (5) |
| LAGOON | "The Blue ___"; Brooke Shields film |
| LAMP | The Blue ___, 1949 Jack Warner film |
| COFFEESONG | The ___ 1946 Frank Sinatra song with lyrics by Bob Hilliard and Dick Miles: 2 wds. |
| GROAN | _, 1946 Mervyn Peake novel, first in the Gormenghast trilogy (5) |
| DOWDESWELL | Jack ___, 1946-47 National Hunt champion jockey (10) |
| MRACE | George Raft/Sylvia Sidney movie, "___. ___" (1946) |