| ZADORA | Actress whose first film was "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" |
| PIA | "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" actress Zadora |
| SCIFI | "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" genre |
| DIAZ | Retired US actress whose first film was 1994's The Mask, Cameron ---- (4) |
| EDNAMAYWONACOTT | Child actress whose first film was Alfred Hitchcock's 'Shadow of a Doubt' (4,3,8) |
| CAMERON | ___ Diaz, former model turned actress whose first film role was in The Mask, opposite 21A (7) |
| NINA | Ship whose formal name was Santa Clara |
| ASNER | Ed who was Santa in "Elf" |
| MIKENICHOLS | The Graduate director whose first film was Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| DESIARNAZ | Cuban-born actor whose first film was 1940's "Too Many Girls" |
| ELVIS | Presley whose first film was "Love Me Tender" |
| STEVENSPIELBERG | Director whose first film was Duel (1971), and whos films have had 147 Oscar nominations, with 35 wins (6,9) |
| LOHAN | Lindsay - - -, actress whose first feature film was The Parent Trap (5) |
| LEONARDO | _ Dicaprio, actor whose first film role was in horror film Critters 3 (8) |
| TRIPOD | Alternative name for the 'monstrous' type of fighting- machine used by the Martians in H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (1898) |
| GRETAGARBO | Publicity-shunning Swedishborn actress whose first talking film was Anna Christie (5,5) |
| GARBO | Swedish-American actress whose first sound film was 1930's Anna Christie (5,5) |
| HENRYFONDA | His first film was "The Farmer Takes A Wife" |
| PAULNEWMAN | His first film was "The Silver Chalice" |
| GRETA | And 31 Swedish-American actress whose first sound film was 1930's Anna Christie (5,5) |