| MACAULAY | Actor Culkin who began his career as a child actor and played Kevin McCallister in Home Alone |
| CULKIN | Macaulay, U.S. actor who played Kevin McCallister in the 1990 film Home Alone (6) |
| ROBERT | Actor Oliveri who began his career as a child actor and played Nick Szalinski in Honey I Shrunk the Kids |
| CHRISTINA | Actress Ricci who began her career as a child actor and played Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family |
| LOHAN | Actress Lindsay ___ who began her career as a child actor and played the twins in The Parent Trap |
| RICHIERICH | 1994 title role for Macaulay Culkin, who turns 45 today |
| KIERAN | Culkin who plays Roman on 12-Across |
| BRITNEY | Singer Spears who began her career as a child actor and was a part of The All-New Mickey Mouse Club |
| MONTGOMERY | British soldier who began his career as a junior officer and ended a Field Marshal (10) |
| CALLAGHAN | James, Labour prime minister who began his career as a clerk in the Inland Revenue (9) |
| WHITBY | A port of north-eastern England, where James Cook began his career as a sailor (6) |
| SEBASTIANBACH | Canadian rock singer who has starred on broadway and began his career as Skid Row's lead singer: 2 w |
| GRAFFITI | Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat began his career as a ___ artist (8) |
| ELTONJOHN | Popular musician who began his career as pianist with the group Bluesology |
| HAYLEYMILLS | English actress who began her career as a child, starring in films such as The Parent Trap (6,5) |
| STEPHENFRY | English actor. broadcaster. comedian and writer who began his career in the ITV comedy series Alfresco (7.3) |
| SOSA | Slugger who began and ended his career as a Texas Ranger |
| OPERA | Shi Pei Pu inspired a stage play with his career as a spy and practitioner of this art |
| NELSON | Trevor, radio presenter and DJ born in 1964 who began his career on Kiss FM (6) |
| GUY | Began his career as Mike Young in Neighbours (--- Pearce) |
