| OPPENHEIMER | 2023 movie for which Cillian Murphy won an Oscar |
| SNL | Show for which Eddie Murphy won an Emmy, in brief |
| DND | Role-playing game that inspired a 2023 movie, for short |
| NORBIT | 2007 film for which Eddie Murphy won Razzies for Worst Actor, Worst Supporting Actor, and Worst Supporting Actress |
| CILLIAN | _ Murphy won a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Oppenheimer (7) |
| SPUD | Andrew '-' Murphy won 2019 Evesham Angling Festival (4) |
| GOLDENGLOBE | Award Cillian Murphy was nominated for for the 2005 movie "Breakfast on Pluto" |
| BLINDERS | Peaky _, Cillian Murphy period drama that won an NTA (8) |
| DUNKIRK | War film, starring Cillian Murphy and Harry Styles, that's been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar (7) |
| PEAKY | Period drama, starring Cillian Murphy, about an inner-city gang (5,8) |
| ACTOR | Best ___, 2024 accolade for Cillian Murphy |
| OPPY | Eponymous nickname for Cillian Murphy, maybe, upon his greatest achievement? (4) |
| LATER | Post-apocalyptic movie with Cillian Murphy from 2002, 28 Days ----- (5) |
| ONE | Number of Oscars won by Cillian Murphy |
| REDEYE | 2005 movie starring Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams. (3,3) |
| RAE | Actor Issa, all of whose 2023 movie releases were nominated for at least one Oscar |
| COLORPURPLE | With The: The soundtrack for this 2023 movie, a remake of a 1985 film, was nominated for two Grammys |
| IRON | "The ___ Claw" (2023 movie that, if there were justice in this world, would have earned Zac Efron an Oscar nomination) |
| YOU | "___ People" (2023 movie with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Eddie Murphy) |
| BEETLE | Blue ____ (2023 movie about an insect-themed superhero) |