| JAMESTHURBER | American humorist "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" |
| OUTWIT | Get humorist the better(6) |
| BENSTILLER | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Tropic Thunder, Night at the Museum, Meet the Parents and Along Came Polly are films in which this US actor starred (3,7) |
| THURBER | see 14ac, US humorist whose short stories include The Catbird Seat and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| JAMES | US humorist whose short stories include The Catbird Seat and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (5,7) |
| PENN | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and The Gunman actor, Sean ___ (4) |
| STILLER | Director and star of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Ben - (7) |
| CATBIRD | The - Seat; story by The Secret Life of Walter Mitty author James Thurber (7) |
| ILL | "And the oboe it is clearly understood; Is an ... wind that no one blows good," according to Danny Kaye in The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty |
| DANNYKAYE | Jewish-American comic actor ('Secret Life of Walter Mitty')(19111987) |
| ANNRUTHERFORD | Vancouver born actress who played Gertrude Griswald in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" |
| SECRET | Ben Stiller's The ___ Life of Walter Mitty |
| THESECRET | Movie, ___ Life of Walter Mitty |
| MITTY | "The Secret Life of Walter -" |
| LIFE | "The Secret ___ of Walter Mitty" (2013 movie) |
| JOSHBILLINGS | The pseudonym of 19th-century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw (4,8) |
| ARTEMUSWARD | Nom de plume of the American humorist Charles Farrar Browne (7,4) |
| OGDEN | "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of," wrote American humorist, ... Nash |
| PERELMAN | S J ___, American humorist whose Broadway plays include The Beauty Part (8) |
| OGDENNASH | American humorist who wrote the line 'Too clever is dumb' (5,4) |
