| SERGIOLEONE | 20th Century Italian filmmaker associated with the spaghetti western genre (6,5) |
| LEONE | Sergio _, 20th-century Italian filmmaker associated with the spaghetti western genre (5) |
| SERGIO | Italian film director credited as the inventor of the Spaghetti Western genre (6,5) |
| UGLY | The "brutto" of the spaghetti western Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (4) |
| ANNIGONI | 20th-century Italian artist in the old master tradition or style who gained prominence when he painted portraits of the Queen in 1955 and 1969 (8) |
| APRIL | The month in which the BBC's Panorama broadcast its classic piece on the failure of the spaghetti ha |
| FUTURISM | 20th-century Italian school of art (8) |
| TOSCANINI | Acclaimed 19th/20th century Italian conductor (surname) (9) |
| BERIO | Luciano ___, 20th-century Italian composer of Sinfonia |
| VISCONTI | Luchino _, 20th-century Italian film director (8) |
| SABATINI | Rafael, early 20th-century Italian-British author of adventure novels (8) |
| DINO | ___ De Laurentiis, 20th-century Italian film producer (4) |
| ENWRAP | Cover echoes north-western genre of music |
| GUNSNROSES | Rockers who did the 1993 album "The Spaghetti Incident?" |
| NAMELESS | Too unpleasant - like the guy in the spaghetti movies? |
| GARNISH | Newfoundland town; or, top the spaghetti with a sprig of parsley |
| INCIDENT | The Spaghetti _?, the fifth studio album by Guns N' Roses (8) |
| ELIO | Italian filmmaker Mr. Petri (b.1929 d.1982) |
| FELLINI | Italian filmmaker collapsed in middle of musical |
| RESPIGHI | Ottorino ___, 20th-century Italian composer (8) |