| MARSHAMASON | Best Actress nominee for "Only When I Laugh" and "The Goodbye Girl" |
| COCO | James, Oscar nominee for Only When I Laugh (4) |
| DREYFUSS | Richard ---, actor in Jaws and The Goodbye Girl (8) |
| JAMESCOCO | American actor and singer who received an Oscar nomination for Only When I Laugh (5,4) |
| SOLITUDE | Poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox that begins: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone." (8) |
| ALIBI | Backtracking, caught in fib, I laugh and say, "I was in Pizza Express in Woking at the time" |
| IRRIDEO | Sine capite vir; I laugh and mock at him |
| DOESITHURT | "Only when I laugh" evoker |
| QUINN | Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for The Goodbye Girl (5,8) |
| MASON | Marsha -, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for The Goodbye Girl (5) |
| JESS | **** Glynne, singer noted for her studio album 'I Cry When I Laugh' (4) |
| FREBERG | Stan whose autobiography was "It Only Hurts When I Laugh" |
| ONLY | _ When I Laugh, sitcom which starred starred James Bolam, Peter Bowles, and Christopher Strauli (4) |
| CRY | I ___ When I Laugh, Jess Glynne album (3) |
| NAOMIWATTS | Best Actress nominee for "21 Grams" and "The Impossible" (2 wds.) |
| HERBERTROSS | American director of films including The Sunshine Boys, The Goodbye Girl Footloose and Steel Magnolias (7,4) |
| DEIGHTON | English author of spy novels including The Ipcress File and Only When I Larf (8) |
| FRANZKAFKA | He wrote "I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy" |
| BERLE | TV great who said "I live to laugh, and I laugh to live" |
| CARON | 1963 Best Actress nominee for "The L-Shaped Room" |
