| BROKEBACKMOUNTAIN | 2005 best-picture-nominated drama whose director's name contains a word meaning "to fish" (and you can spell his name using one letter per circled word) (3rd) |
| ROMA | Best Picture-nominated drama of 2018 |
| TRAWL | Word meaning to fish with a net or to thoroughly search/fish the Net (5) |
| HOTH | "The Empire Strikes Back" ice planet that inaptly contains a word meaning "scorching" |
| SWORDFISH | Catch this fish and you might wield a weapon (9) |
| GUDDLE | Scots verb meaning to fish with the hands by groping under the stones or banks of a loch's stream, thus to dabble in puddles, whether muddy or clean (6) |
| OLDVIC | London theatre whose directors have included Ralph Richardson and Matthew Warchus (3,3) |
| COEN | "Fargo" directors' name |
| ORSO | Film director's name cut short roughly (2,2) |
| GUMP | "Forrest ___" (Best Picture-winning 1994 film whose director and two main stars have reunited for a new movie 30 years later) |
| TRAIN | Oscar-nominated drama starring Joel Edgerton as a railroad worker (5,6) |
| DREAMS | Oscar-nominated drama starring Joel Edgerton as a railroad worker (5,6) |
| FBI | Govt. org. whose director serves a 10-year term |
| TAR | Oscar-nominated drama starring Cate Blanchett (3) |
| CORNISH | London - - - , club founded in 1962 whose director of rugby, Redruth-born Dickon Moon, is in his 20th season at the helm (7) |
| CONFETTI | This word is an Italian plural form meaning "sweetmeat." That word comes from a variety of Latin derivations of a word meaning "to prepare." First known use in English: 1815. It refers to small bits o |
| STOW | Old English "place", today a word meaning to pack in a case, to stash in a boat, to put under hatches or to cram down one's throat (4) |
| BEAT | Related to the name of a heavy mallet for striking blows, a word meaning to flog, hammer or thwack repeatedly; conquer or trounce; rhythmically drum; mark time with a baton; or, pulsate, as in the hea |
| DILACERATE | A word meaning 'to tear asunder', a word meaning much the same without its first two-letter prefix (10) |
| ELUDE | Sharing its root "to play" with a simple parlour game, a word meaning to baffle; or, to escape by cunning (5) |
