| BILLYCRYSTAL | Actor who has hosted the Oscars nine times, a number second only to Bob Hope |
| CRYSTAL | Billy who's hosted the Oscars nine times |
| POWER | How many times a number is multiplied by itself, in math |
| BRENDA | Woman who recently got unofficially married to Bob Hope in Emmerdale (6,6) |
| THIRTEEN | Strange rite in earlier time a number regarded as ominous (8) |
| DONTBIGEMPTY | With 45 Across, a query put to Bob Hope in 1939's The Cat and the Canary |
| LLCOOLJ | Rapper/actor who has hosted the Grammys five times: 3 wds. |
| WHOOPI | First name of the actress and comedian who has hosted the Academy Awards four times (6) |
| KEOGHAN | New Zealander who has hosted the US version of The Amazing Race since 2001 (7) |
| ADRIAN | Presenter who has hosted The One Show and The Money Programme, ___ Chiles (6) |
| ADAMHILLS | Australian comic who has hosted the Channel 4 show The Last Leg since 2012 |
| DAVIDDIMBLEBY | Who has hosted the BBC's Question Time programme since 1994? (5,8) |
| OLLY | X Factor runner- up who has hosted the show, _ Murs (4) |
| WHITEHALL | Jack, English comedian and presenter who has hosted the BRITs since 2018 (9) |
| STRAHAN | Pro football Hall of Famer who has hosted The $100,000 Pyramid since 2016 |
| SARA | _ Cox, presenter who has hosted The Great Pottery Throw Down (4) |
| JIMMYKIMMEL | Talk show host who recently hosted the Oscars for the second year in a row: 2 wds. |
| BOBHOPE | Actor and comedian who hosted the Oscars ceremony a record 19 times (3,4) |
| BEELZEBUB | In Paradise Lost, Milton places this 'Lord of the Flies' as second only to Satan in the unholy hiera |
| TREBLINKA | Nazi death camp, second only to Auschwitz in terms of the number of Jewish deaths (9) |
