| CLOUDYMEMORIES | All the airline pilot had of his many career flights? |
| HAVEITALL | What many career women strive to do |
| STRANGELOVE | Merkin Muffley, one of his many roles in Kubrick's Dr. ... or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
| CASANOVA | Italian adventurer whose Memoires told of his many amorous encounters across 18th Century Europe |
| TOMHANKS | U.S. actor who played the lead role of the heroic airline pilot in the 2016 film Sully (3,5) |
| VUILLARD | Painter who lived with his mother, a dressmaker, until he was 60, hence themes of cloth/sewing in his many works including The Flowered Dress, The Seamstress, The Striped Blouse, The Thread and Walkin |
| GERICAULT | French artist noted for The Raft of the Medusa, The Charging Chasseur and his many paintings of horses (9) |
| LANDSEER | Friend, favourite artist and teacher of Queen Victoria, his many paintings of animals include Dash, Doubtful Crumbs, Eos, The Monarch of the Glen, Quiz and Shoeing (8) |
| BRITISH | The B of the airline BA (7) |
| WENTSOUTH | "... the first of which was that any thoughts I had of having 'free time' ___ immediately..." |
| BALLCOCK | Initially Brown and his co-pilot had large valve mechanism (8) |
| OILPAINT | A new pilot had one kind of artistic medium (3,5) |
| BOGART | Hollywood screen icon of the 1940s and 1950s, his many film credits included "The Maltese Falcon" and "The African Queen" (6) |
| PANAM | Defunct airline, or a defunct TV drama about the airline |
| FRYINGPANAM | What the overheated passengers called the airline? |
| LAKER | Which Freddie revolutionised the airline industry in the 1970s? (5) |
| EVINCED | Clearly showed the need Vic had of it (7) |
| DISAPPEARING | Pained grasp I had of it when going out of sight (12) |
| PRIAM | Air MP had of a ruler of Troy (5) |
| CAPTAINQUIRK | What the eccentric pilot had? |
