| RIVERPHOENIX | Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for Running On Empty (5,7) |
| RIVER | Mr. Phoenix, Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for Running on Empty (5) |
| PHOENIX | Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for Running On Empty (5,7) |
| ELLIOTTGOULD | 1970 Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (7.5) |
| TRAIN | Get fit for running on the track? (5) |
| BEAN | British car company, active from 1919 to 1929 and initially successful with high volume sales against Austin and Morris: a good candidate for running on vegetable oil perhaps (4) |
| HALFMARATHON | Little Henry travelling to Farnham for running event |
| HOUSEKEEPING | Money set aside for running a home |
| JACKSONBROWNE | This 73-year-old "Running on Empty" singer was nominated for Best Americana Album |
| HOMOLKA | Oscar, 1948 Best Supporting Actor Oscar-nominee for I Remember Mama (7) |
| GAS | What you're running out of when you're running on empty |
| RESERVETANK | Need for those running on empty |
| BROWNE | Jackson, rock musician noted for his 1977 album Running On Empty (6) |
| WAHLBERG | Mark ___, Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for The Departed (8) |
| DENIRO | Best supporting actor Oscar nominee for 'Silver Linings Playbook' |
| STAMP | Terence -, Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for Billy Budd (5) |
| GARCIA | Andy ?, Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for The Godfather: Part III |
| RAINS | Claude, Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for Mr. Skeffington (5) |
| SEGAL | George, Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (5) |
| AHERNE | Brian, Best Supporting Actor Oscar-nominee for the 1939 film Juarez (6) |
