| EMCEE | Billy Crystal or Whoopi Goldberg for the Oscars, often |
| NICKNAME | Tiger or Whoopi |
| EGOT | Quartet of awards won by Whoopi Goldberg, for short |
| PWC | Which company took the blame for the Oscars Best Picture mix-up? (1,1,1) |
| TENS | You're dressed to the Nines for the Oscars? I'll dress one better! |
| ACADEMYAWARDS | Formal name for the Oscars (7,6) |
| OSAGE | American people who have time for the Oscars? |
| HOPE | Emcee for the Oscars 18 times |
| LIMO | ride for the Oscars, perhaps |
| AWARDS | Conflict interrupting publicity for the Oscars, say |
| RSVP | I imagine filmmakers must do this for the Oscars. |
| STATUETTES | Weekday time in America for the Oscars (10) |
| LUSTRE | Metallic, pearly, silky, dull, vitreous ... word for the way in which light interacts with a crystal or other mineral as one of its defining properties (6) |
| CLOUD | The name for any visible mass of water droplets, ice crystals, or a mixture of both that is suspended in the air. (5) |
| NOMINATIONS | Contenders for the Oscars |
| SPAR | Nautical pole such as a boom, gaff, mast or yard; type of crystal; or, a bout of mock-combat in boxing (4) |
| PRISMS | In optics, triangular blocks of crystal or glass used to disperse white light into visible spectral colours, to deviate rays or to rectify inverted images in binoculars (6) |
| GLAZE | Be it eggwash, drizzly thin icing, enamel, ganache, gloss, glost, lacquer or Japanese raku's lustrous ethereal finish which appears to be floating, it is a crystal- or vitric-like coating (5) |
| QUARTZ | Apple-green chrysoprase, bluish-violet amethyst, golden-lemony citrine, leek-hued prase, pinkish-rose hyaline, moss-coloured agate or rich burnt orangey-brown sard, but each one a crystal or mineral w |
| GAZER | Word after crystal or star |
