| ROSANNA | Actress who starred alongside Madonna in 'Desperately Seeking Susan', - Arquette (7) |
| ROSANNAARQUETTE | Actress who starred alongside Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan |
| CRISIS | Conservative facing endless peril is in desperately tricky situation |
| SIGNIFICANT | Facing sit-in, desperately symbolic |
| KUTCHER | Actor who starred alongside Amy Smart in the 2004 film The Butterfly Effect (6,7) |
| FARRELL | Colin -; actor who appeared in Ballykissangel and later starred alongside Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's in Minority Report (7) |
| ARQUETTE | Rosanna, U.S. actress who starred with Madonna in the 1985 comedy film Desperately Seeking Susan (8) |
| FREEMAN | Morgan _, starred alongside Brad Pitt in the 1995 thriller Seven (7) |
| BETTANY | Paul _, starred alongside Elizabeth Olsen in WandaVision (7) |
| ANDRESS | Ursula, actress who starred alongside 8 Down in Dr. No (7) |
| ENGLISH | Rose may be single, desperately seeking husband (7) |
| ISABELLEADJANI | French actress who starred alongside Gerard Depardieu in Camille Claudel |
| GEENADAVIS | Actress who starred alongside Alec Baldwin in Beetlejuice |
| WINGER | Actress who starred alongside Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman (6) |
| EMILYBLUNT | British actress who starred alongside John Krasinski in the horror film A Quiet Place |
| TYNEDALY | US actress who starred alongside Sharon Gless in Cagney And Lacey (4,4) |
| JADAPINKETTSMITH | Actress who starred alongside Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor (1996) |
| KELLYPRESTON | Actress who starred alongside husband John Travolta in Gotti (2018) |
| MAGGIEGYLLENHAAL | Actress who starred alongside Emma Thompson in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang |
| JOHANSSON | Scarlett, actress who starred alongside Adam Driver in Marriage Story (9) |