| BARBARASTANWYCK | (GKN) Star of the 1945 romantic comedy film Christmas in Connecticut (7,8) |
| JACKLEMMON | - (GKN) Star of the Christmas-set 1960 romantic comedy film The Apartment (4.6) |
| UNAS | Ms. O'connor's of "Christmas in Connecticut" (1945) |
| CALLOW | Simon, actor who voices Ebenezer Scrooge in the 2001 film Christmas Carol: The Movie (6) |
| ANGEL | Dolly Parton played one in the 2020 film "Christmas on the Square" |
| EST | Setting for Christmas in Connecticut: Abbr. |
| HITCHCOCK | Alfred, director of the 1945 film Spellbound (9) |
| LEAN | David, director of the 1945 film Blithe Spirit (4) |
| DAVIDLEAN | Director of the 1945 film Blithe Spirit (5,4) |
| ERNST | Biochemist and corecipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, _ Chain (5) |
| ORWELL | George _, author of the 1945 novella Animal Farm (6) |
| SIRALEXANDERFLEMING | Knighted bacteriologist, winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize (3,9,7) |
| DYLANTHOMAS | Writer of the 1945 poem Fern Hill (5,6) |
| WOLFGANGPAULI | Austrian-born winner of the 1945 Nobel physics prize for his exclusion principle |
| PROKOFIEV | Russian composer of the 1945 ballet Romeo And Juliet, Sergei _ (9) |
| WAUGH | Author of the 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn _ (5) |
| EVELYN | Author of the 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited, _ Waugh (6) |
| CELIA | Star of 1945 romantic drama Brief Encounter, ----- Johnson (5) |
| ALAMOGORDO | Site of the 1945 Trinity test |
| YALTA | Location of the 1945 Allied conference (5) |
