| DEADPOOL | Antihero who battles Ajax in a 2016 film of the same name |
| JONES | Toby, English actor who played Captain Mainwaring in the 2016 film of Dad's Army (5) |
| GRU | Animated antihero who fights the villain Maxime Le Mal |
| NATTURNER | He led a slave rebellion in 1831 and his story was told in a 2016 film: 2 wds. |
| STRANGE | Marvel Comics character, Doctor _, played by Benedict Cumberbatch in a 2016 film (7) |
| JENKINS | Florence Foster, U.S. amateur soprano noted for her poor singing ability played by Meryl Streep in a 2016 film (7) |
| KES | The name of Billy's kestrel in the 1969 film of the same name (3) |
| WILLIAMS | Author of "The Perfect Find," the basis of a Netflix film of the same name |
| TELAMON | The father of the hero Ajax in Greek mythology (7) |
| FAME | TV series based on the 1980 film of the same name about a group of students at a fictional school for the performing arts |
| MICHAEL | Archangel who battles Satan in the Book of Revelation |
| ABIGAIL | Sister of Levi and Eden in Home and Away, who battles a substance abuse disorder (7) |
| LEANONME | 1972 hit covered by Thelma Houston and the Winans in the soundtrack to a 1989 film of the same name |
| BADER | Second World War RAF flying ace portrayed in Paul Brickhill's book Reach for the Sky and in a film of the same name (5) |
| TEEN | ___ Wolf supernatural drama TV series based on the 1985 film of the same name about a youngster who is bitten by a werewolf |
| HARVEY | Who is the six-foot invisible rabbit in the 1950 James Stewart film of the same name? (6) |
| LONELINESS | The ___ of the Long Distance Runner, 1959 short story by Alan Sillitoe, adapted for a 1962 film of the same name starring Tom Courtenay |
| OCEANS | First in the heist film franchise, based on the 1960 rat pack film of the same name, - Eleven (5) |
| OSCAR | 1991 John Landis film starring Sylvester Stallone that is a remake of a 1967 French film of the same name |
| ALADDIN | Which 2019 film is a live- action adaptation of a 1992 animated film of the same name? (7) |
