| BLETHYN | Brenda, Best Actress Oscar nominee for Secrets & Lies (7) |
| BRENDA | Miss Blethyn, Best Actress Oscar nominee for Secrets & Lies (6) |
| MIKE | --- Leigh, film director who won the Palme d'Or in 2016 for Secrets & Lies (4) |
| VACCARO | Brenda -, Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for Once Is Not Enough (7) |
| TIMOTHY | ___ Spall Secrets & Lies actor who stars in the mystery film The Pale Blue Eye |
| SPRAWLS | Swaps left and right unsuitably and lies spread-eagle (7) |
| CONFIDE | Tell secrets and start new-found interest in code (7) |
| CRUMBLE | About to uncover secrets and fall to pieces (7) |
| SECRETS | ___ and Lies, 1996 film directed by Mike Leigh (7) |
| MEMPHIS | Where the King lies and lies, on edge around grasping politician |
| LEIGH | Mike ---, film and theatre writer and director whose movies include Secrets & Lies and Vera Drake (5) |
| COLLUDE | Come to a secret and devious understanding (7) |
| REPOSES | Repeatedly sits and lies. (7) |
| MIKELEIGH | Director of 1996's Secrets and Lies, ---- ----- (4,5) |
| LEICESTER | Endless secrets and lies condemned City (9) |
| THERANOS | "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup" subject |
| SPALL | Timothy, actor whose films include Gothic and Secrets & Lies (5) |
| ICENINE | Secret (and potentially cataclysmic) substance in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle |
| HORTENSE | "Secrets & Lies" heroine |
| KENNETHBRANAGH | British filmmaker and actor who played the role of Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, and whose films include Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Dunkirk and Hamlet (7,7) |
