| GRANTORINO | 2009 film in which Clint Eastwood plays a widowed Korean War veteran (4,6) |
| PALERIDER | Film in which Clint Eastwood plays the "Preacher" * (9) |
| EASE | Clint Eastwood plays a preacher in ___ Rider |
| TORINO | Gran _; Clint Eastwood film featuring an alienated Korean war veteran (6) |
| THACKERY | Colin, English Korean War veteran who won Britain's Got Talent in 2019 (8) |
| RAWHIDE | American TV Western series in which Clint Eastwood played the character Rowdy Yates |
| INVICTUS | 2009 film in which Morgan Freeman plays Nelson Mandela (8) |
| UNITED | The Damned ___, 2009 film in which Michael Sheen played Brian Clough |
| RNC | Quadrennial event at which Clint Eastwood had a conversation with an empty chair |
| CARMEL | City in Monterey County. California of which Clint Eastwood was mayor between 1986 and 1988 (6) |
| FRANCESMCDORMAND | Actress who played a widowed drifter in 2020 film Nomadland |
| SPOUSELESS | Unmarried, widowed (10) |
| NEST | Richard Mulligan played a widowed pediatrician in this sitcom (Empty ___) |
| EMPTYNEST | Richard Mulligan played a widowed doctor in this sitcom (5,4) |
| THEBOYS | Drama starring Clive Owen as a widowed father, ___ Are Back (3,4) |
| AREBACK | Drama starring Clive Owen as a widowed dad, TheBoys ... (3,4) |
| DANINREALLIFE | 2007 comedy-drama starring Steve Carell as a widowed advice columnist: 4 wds. |
| RAMBO | Which fictional troubled war veteran became a vehicle for the film star Stallone? (5) |
| TAMMYDUCKWORTH | Illinois congresswoman and Iraq War veteran elected to her first term as a US senator in 2016: 2 wds. |
| BUGLE | Instrument traditionally used to sound the Last Post; war veteran, Bill Osborne, 92, honours the fallen every Remembrance Day with a performance in the garden of his Ellesmere Port home (5) |
