| COCKTAIL | 1988 Tom Cruise film awarded that year's Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture (8) |
| ZADORA | "Butterfly" co-star who won the 1982 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress |
| GREATEST | Get rates awarded that are the best ever (8) |
| PIA | _ Zadora. actress who simultaneously won Golden Globe and Golden Raspberry Awards for her role in the 1982 crime drama film Butterfly (3) |
| CECILBDEMILLE | Namesake of Oprah's award at this year's Golden Globes |
| SUMMERTIME | The year's golden season, warmest quarter, period of advanced clocks and months most dry, when the "living is easy, the fish are jumping and the cotton is high" (10) |
| RAINMAN | 1988 Tom Cruise film |
| RAIN | _ Man, 1988 Tom Cruise film (4) |
| UAE | Country offering a 10-year Golden Visa under the Special Talent category for elite athletes and sports professionals.(abbvr.) (3) |
| ELKE | Winner, with Tippi and Ursula, of the 1963 female New Star of the Year Golden Globe |
| ISHTAR | 1987 movie that was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Picture |
| GIGLI | 2003 film that won the Razzie Award for Worst Picture |
| MORBIUS | Marvel movie nominated for the 2023 Razzie Award for Worst Picture |
| CARRYCOT | Bear baby in that year caught in lure (8) |
| ELIGIBLE | To be draft _, a player must be turning 18 by Sept. 15 of that year |
| EVEN | Cowgirls Get the Blues, 1993 film starring Uma Thurman, which earned her a Golden Raspberry Award nomination (4) |
| RAZZIE | Nickname of the less-than-prestigious Golden Raspberry Award (6) |
| EMOJI | "The ___ Movie" (2017 animated film that won the Razzie for Worst Picture) |
| MADAMEWEB | This superhero movie was nominated for Worst Picture, and also earned star Dakota Fanning a Worst Actress nom |
| PSYCHO | 1998 film that won the Golden Raspberry for Worst Remake |
