| LEANONME | 1989 film set in an inner-city high school |
| STEELMAGNOLIAS | 1989 film set in a beauty shop |
| TOSIRWITHLOVE | 1967 British film starring Sydney Poitier that deals with social and racial issues in an inner city school (2,3,4,4) |
| FAME | 80s TV series set in the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. (4) |
| ADRYWHITESEASON | 1989 film set around the Soweto Riots based on Andre Brink's novel of the same name |
| WITNESS | 1985 film set in an Amish community and starring Harrison Ford |
| WRECKITRALPH | Animated Disney film set in an arcade |
| PLAYER | Steven Spielberg sci-fi film set in an immersive virtual world, Ready ___ One (6) |
| PLAYERONE | Steven Spielberg sci-fi film set in an immersive virtual world, Ready _ (6,3) |
| AFLOAT | In an inner tube, perhaps |
| BURWOODBUGLER | Soldier sounding reveille, perhaps; statue in an inner west park (7,6) |
| LIVINGINNEWTOWN | Making one's home in an inner west suburb (6,2,7) |
| BLINDERS | Period drama, starring Cillian Murphy, about an inner-city gang (5,8) |
| PEAKY | Period drama, starring Cillian Murphy, about an inner-city gang (5,8) |
| GHETTOBLATHER | Nonsense talk from an inner city? |
| REV | Sitcom about a vicar of an inner-city church (3) |
| ULTIMO | (Of a date) during the previous month; an inner-city suburb of Sydney (6) |
| PAZ | La ___: city high in the Bolivian Andes. (3) |
| LEW | Kareem, when he was a New York City high schooler |
| FARCE | City high flyers turnover is nonsense (5) |
