| GOSFORDPARK | 2001 murder mystery film in which Maggie Smith played a countess with financial problems: 2 wds. |
| DOWNTONABBEY | 2019 film based on a British TV series in which Maggie Smith played a sharp-tongued matriarch: 2 wds. |
| HARRYPOTTER | Movie series in which Maggie Smith played Professor Minerva McGonagall: 2 wds. |
| MONEYTRAP | Movie of 1965 in which Canadian actor Glenn Ford stars as a policeman with financial problems, with The: 2 wds. |
| ACHORUSLIEN | Broadway flop about singers with financial problems? |
| CLEAN | In which Maggie Cheung strived for a drug-free existence (5) |
| ANADEARMAS | Actor in murder-mystery film Knives Out (3,2,5) |
| ALI | Whom Will Smith played in a 2001 sports biopic |
| RUSSELLBRAND | Comedian and actor who appears in 2022 murder mystery film Death On The Nile (7,5) |
| RUNINTODEBT | Suffer financial problem and turn in to bed in a nervous state (3,4,4) |
| KNIVES | Hit murder mystery film, ___ Out, starring Chester-born Daniel Craig as private detective Benoit Blanc investigating a family gathering that has gone awry (6) |
| SEEHOW | New murder mystery film with Sam Rockwell (3,3,4,3) |
| THEYRUN | New murder mystery film with Sam Rockwell (3,3,4,3) |
| WIND | ___ River 2017 neo-Western murder mystery film starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner |
| BENEDICTWONG | Doctor Strange actor who plays Clarence Da Shi in the Netflix sci-fi series 3 Body Problem: 2 wds. |
| JONATHANPRYCE | The Crown actor who plays Mike Evans in 3 Body Problem: 2 wds. |
| ROSALINDACHAO | The Joy Luck Club actress who plays Ye Wenjie in 3 Body Problem: 2 wds. |
| KEEPINGUPAPPEARANCES | Clive Smith played Richard, the long-suffering husband in this 1990s BBC TV sitcom |
| EARL | Male equivalent of a countess; or, in Anglo-Saxon England, a man of noble rank as opposed to a churl (4) |
| AA | Support group for those with drinking problems (2) |
