| HOLLYWOODENDING | 2002 romcom with a cast including Tea Leoni as Ellie and Debra Messing as Lori |
| HOLLYWOOD | 2002 romcom with a cast including Tea Leoni as Ellie and Debra Messing as Lori (9,6) |
| ENDING | 2002 romcom with a cast including Tea Leoni as Ellie and Debra Messing as Lori (9,6) |
| ALABAMA | Sweet Home -; 2002 romcom with Reese Witherspoon (7) |
| CONTACT | 1997 Robert Zemeckis film starring Jodie Foster as Ellie Arroway (7) |
| MEADE | New Yorker who stars as Lori Madison in The Deuce, Emily ___ |
| MADAM | Tea Leoni as ___ Secretary |
| EWING | Surname of Miss Ellie and Sue Ellen in an American soap |
| THEEWINGS | Miss Ellie and her boys |
| FORSTER | E. M. -, novelist whose A Room with a View was adapted into a film with a cast including Helena Bonham Carter and Daniel Day-Lewis (7) |
| TROY | 2004 film with a cast including Brad Pitt as Achilles, Orlando Bloom as Paris and Diane Kruger as Helen (4) |
| GIBBONS | Author whose novel Cold Comfort Farm was adapted into a TV movie with a cast including Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley (7) |
| EMMA | Jane Austen's novel recently adapted into a film with a cast including Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Nighy and Miranda Hart (4) |
| GASKELL | Author whose novel Cranford was adapted into a television drama with a cast including Judi Dench, Jim Carter, Julia McKenzie and Imelda Staunton (7) |
| KINGSLEY | Author of The Water-Babies, Hypatia and Westward Ho! who 33 With a cast including Nicholas Hoult, Emily Watson and Julie Walters, Richard E. Grant's film based on his boyhood in Swaziland (3-3) |
| SAMURAI | The Last -; historical drama film with a cast including Tom Cruise and Timothy Spall (7) |
| WAHWAH | With a cast including Nicholas Hoult, Emily Watson and Julie Walters, Richard E. Grant's film based on his boyhood in Swaziland (3-3) |
| HEADS | Talking -; Alan Bennett's series of monologues originally with a cast including Julie Walters, Maggie Smith, Patricia Routledge and Thora Hird (S) |
| NED | US sitcom starring Thomas Haden Church and Debra Messing (--- and Stacey) |
| HOTEL | ___ Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, third film in the hit franchise with voice work by a cast including 6D, 13D and Selena Gomez (5) |
