| ITSAWONDERFULLIFE | A 1946 2 down film starring James Stewart, which won an Academy Award for a new method of simulating falling snow! (3,1,9,4) |
| SOPHIALOREN | The first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance (6,5) |
| FALLING | ___ Down, film starring Michael Douglas (7) |
| JAMES | Scottish engineer and inventor who patented 'A new method of lessening the consumption of steam and fuel in fireengines' in 1769 (5) |
| WATT | Scottish engineer and inventor who patented 'A new method of lessening the consumption of steam and fuel in fireengines' in 1769 (4) |
| HOME | With 2-Down, film in which Macaulay Culkin foils bumbling crooks |
| ITSA | ___ Wonderful Life Christmas film from 1946: 2 wds. |
| TULSAKING | Paramount+ crime drama starring Sylvester Stallone (born 1946): 2 wds. |
| STREET | 1946 two act opera by Kurt Weill (6,5) |
| SCENE | 1946 two act opera by Kurt Weill (6,5) |
| STREETSCENE | 1946 two-act opera by Kurt Weill (6,5) |
| FORD | ___ v Ferrari American sports drama film which won an award for the Best Sound Editing at the 92nd Academy Awards |
| COMPASS | In 1745, a new method for magnetising steel improved the quality of what instrument? (7) |
| PARASITE | South Korean dark comedy thriller which won an award for the Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards |
| PIONEER | One who is the first to use or apply a new method or area of knowledge (7) |
| GRANDHOTEL | 1932 film which won an Oscar for best film, its only nomination |
| TRAFFIC | Film about the illegal drug trade which won an Oscar for director Steven Soderbergh (7) |
| ONCE | 2007 romantic musical film which won an Oscar for Best Original Song (4) |
| BIKINI | One of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, site of a 1946 atom-bomb test (6) |
| REMOTECONTROL | Redesigned electromotor incorporates new method of operating |
