| NOSTROMO | A Joseph Conrad novel, also the name of the spacecraft in the film Alien (8) |
| AMERICANBEAUTY | 1931 Edna Ferber novel; also the name of a 1999 film directed by Sam Mendes (8,6) |
| ASH | Android in the film Alien (3) |
| EDGARWALLACE | English writer known for his crime novels, also the author of King Kong (5,7) |
| OUTCAST | Carol Reed directed Trevor Howard in the movie based on a Joseph Conrad novel, ... Of The Islands |
| SECRET | 2016 TV series based on a Joseph Conrad novel, The ------ Agent (6) |
| LORDJIM | Title character in a Joseph Conrad novel |
| HURT | Award-winning English stage and screen actor who starred in the films Alien, Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Elephant Man (4) |
| EUCLID | As dirt is removed from the spacecraft in Doctor Who (6) |
| NEWT | Girl saved by Ripley in the film Aliens (4) |
| SABOTAGE | Alfred Hitchcock film based on the Joseph Conrad novel The Secret Agent (8) |
| JOHNHURT | Actor who played Kane, first on-screen victim of the xenomorph, in the 1979 sci-fi film Alien (4,4) |
| SKERRITT | Tom ___, US actor whose roles include Dallas in 1979 horror film Alien (8) |
| CAPSULES | Medicine in the spacecraft? (8) |
| DARKNESS | Hear t of ___, Joseph Conrad novel (8) |
| SPLASHDOWN | Landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight (10) |
| HATSTAND | That's novel, also handy for boaters, say (8) |
| ROADKILL | 1994 Jack Ketchum novel also published as Joyride (4,4) |
| SIGOURNEY | In space you couldn't hear her scream, according to the advertising for the film Alien; ... Weaver |
| ENTERPRISE | USS -; name of Captain James T. Kirk's spacecraft in the original Star Trek series (10) |
