| PARCHEESI | American adaptation of an ancient cross-and-circle board game of India |
| PACHISI | Cross and circle board game that originated in Ancient India (7) |
| AVERSION | Dislike American adaptation |
| JAMESMASON | British actor, star of films including Lolita and The Boys from Brazil, who was also in the cast of Evil Under the Sun, a big screen adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel that was shot in Mallorca (5 |
| CHESS | Best-selling board game of all time, ahead of Checkers (#2), Backgammon (#3) and Monopoly (#4) |
| THEJOYMUCKCLUB | Dirty 1993 movie adaptation of an Amy Tan novel? |
| WAROFTHE | BBC adaptation of an HG Wells novel starring Rafe Spall, The _ _ _ _ (3,2,3,6) |
| WORLDS | BBC adaptation of an HG Wells novel starring Rafe Spall, The _ _ _ _ (3,2,3,6) |
| INDIA | Judy Davis adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, A Passage to ___ |
| MARAINEY | Blues pioneer played by Viola Davis in a 2020 film adaptation of an August Wilson play |
| AHANDFULOFDUST | 1988 film adaptation of an Evelyn Waugh story |
| CATS | 2019 film adaptation of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical |
| THEGREATGATSBY | 2013 film adaptation of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel starring Leonardo DiCaprio: 3 wds. |
| HALMA | Board game of 256 squares in which pieces are moved into vacant squares immediately behind an opponent's pieces (5) |
| BATTLESHIP | 2012 action-adventure film loosely based on the board game of the same name (10) |
| ANGERLY | Ancient cross featuring heavenly being's shortened lines (7) |
| LADY | The - in the Van; starring Maggie Smith, a film adaptation of an original play Alan Bennett based on |
| DANGEROUSLIAISONS | 1988 Stephen Frears film based on Christopher Hampton's theatrical adaptation of an 18th-century novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos |
| EQUATION | End of line and circle in quaint sort of mathematical statement (8) |
| AREACODE | ZIP or PIN, for example, of arcade built around end of avenue and circle (4,4) |
