| DEPALMA | American director whose films include Carrie. Dressed to KilL The Untouchables and Mission: Impossible (5.2.5) |
| BRIAN | And 1 American director whose films include Carrie. Dressed to KilL The Untouchables and Mission: Impossible (5.2.5) |
| LAURIE | Piper _ actress whose films include Carrie and Children of a Lesser God (6) |
| PATRICIA | With 20-Across: "The Untouchables" and "The Station Agent" actress who will join 4-Across for Season Two starting in late 2026, as announced this week |
| LEWIS | Russian-American director whose films include All Quiet on the Western Front, The Front Page and Of Mice and Men (5,9) |
| MILESTONE | Russian-American director whose films include All Quiet on the Western Front, The Front Page and Of Mice and Men (5,9) |
| WESANDERSON | American director whose films include The Grand Budapest Hotel and The French Dispatch |
| ARTHURPENN | American director whose films include Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant and Little Big Man |
| DONSIEGEL | American director whose films include Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Dirty Harry and We Shootist (3,6) |
| JOHN | American director whose films include Halloween, The Fog and Dark Star (4,9) |
| CARPENTER | American director whose films include Halloween, The Fog and Dark Star (4,9) |
| MARKRUDOLF | American director whose films including The Rose. The River and On Golden Pond (4,6) |
| SPIKELEE | American director whose films include Do the Right Thing and Mo' Better Blues |
| STANLEYKUBRICK | American director whose films include Paths of Glory, 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange |
| OLIVERSTONE | American director whose films include Platoon, Wall Street and JFK (6,5) |
| SCORSESE | Martin _, American director whose films have included Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas (8) |
| ROBERTALTMAN | American director whose films included M.A.S.H. and Gosford Park (6,6) |
| OTTO | ___ Preminger, Austrian-American director whose films included Laura and Anatomy Of A Murder (4) |
| STEPHENKING | American author whose novels include Carrie, The Shining and Misery (7,4) |
| ANIL | _ Kapoor, Indian actor whose films include Slumdog Millionaire and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (4) |
