| GUINEAFOWL | Bird in the title of a film by Rungano Nyoni (March, 2025) |
| ABIGAIL | The eponymous, but unseen, hero of a film by Mike Leigh starring Alison Steadman (7) |
| RAVEN | Bird in the title of an 1845 poem by Edgar Allan Poe (5) |
| PELICAN | Water bird in the title of a 1992 John Grisham novel (7) |
| SWAN | Bird in the title of a famous ballet |
| OBRIEN | Double-bassist Orin ___ (subject of "The Only Girl in the Orchestra," which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film in March, 2025) |
| ARSENIC | Featuring in the title of a play adapted into a film by Frank Capra, the element with germanium to its left and selenium to its right on the periodic table (7) |
| RANDY | Country legend Travis who was the subject of a tribute from Carrie Underwood in the concert special "Opry 100: A Live Celebration" (March, 2025) |
| SCANDAL | Word for an event causing public outrage that was used as the title of a film based on the Profumo affair (7) |
| OFOZ | Words which follow The Wizard to give the title of a film traditionally shown on TV at Christmas (2,2) |
| AMMONITE | Ram's-horn-like cephalopod fossil whose name is given as the title of a film based on the pioneering palaeontologist Mary Anning (8) |
| WORLDS | The War of the -; H. G. Wells novel adapted as a radio episode by Orson Welles and a film by Steven Spielberg (6) |
| RIAN | Director of part of a series between a film by J.J. and another film by J.J. |
| PORTRAIT | The - of a Lady; novel by Henry James, adapted into a film by Jane Campion (8) |
| ANSE | Which South Korean won the women's singles title at the prestigious All-england badminton championship in March 2025? (2,2) |
| VEER | Who won the men's singles title at the SRFI Indian Tour squash championship in March 2025? (4) |
| RAJITHA | Identify this college student from Andhra Pradesh, who was part of the women's 4x400m relay team which made history by winning the gold medal at the 26th Asian Athletic Championship held in South Kore |
| DREAMCOUNT | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie novel whose title refers to the idealistic way one of its characters takes stock of her past relationships (March, 2025) |
| PERFECTION | Vincenzo Latronico novel that updates Georges Perec's "Things: A Story of the Sixties" for the Instagram age (trans. March, 2025) |
| TORA | If repeated, title of a film about Pearl Harbor |
