| MIKELEIGH | British dramatist and film director whose plays include Abigail's Party (4,5) |
| EDWARD | And 7 British dramatist and theatre director whose plays include 1965's Saved (6,4) |
| TATE | Nahum ___, British dramatist and poet appointed Poet Laureate in 1692 (4) |
| BENNETT | Alan, British dramatist and screenwriter born in Leeds who wrote the play The History Boys (7) |
| TERANTINO | American actor, writer and film director whose movies include Reservoir Dogs (7,9) |
| TRAVERSAL | Crossing a line, following British dramatist (9) |
| ORPINGTON | British dramatist consuming half of game - duck, perhaps |
| IDALUPINO | Actress and film director who described herself as the "poor man's Bette Davis" |
| SPIELBERG | Talk endlessly with composer and film director (9) |
| ANDERSON | Lindsay, British stage and film director whose films include If... (8) |
| QUENTIN | And 23 American actor, writer and film director whose movies include Reservoir Dogs (7,9) |
| APTED | Michael ___, British TV and film director whose films include Coal Miner's Daughter |
| LADYSMAID | Abigail's dismal day off |
| FREDDURST | American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor and film director best known for fronting the band Limp Bizkit |
| BROOKS | Mel ---, US comedy writer, actor and film director whose movies include The Producers and Blazing Saddles (6) |
| BRENDAN | Irish actor and film director whose films include In Bruges, The Guard and The Banshees of Inisherin (7,7) |
| GLEESON | Irish actor and film director whose films include In Bruges, The Guard and The Banshees of Inisherin (7,7) |
| MAMET | David ---, American playwright and film director whose works include 1988's Speed-The-Plow (5) |
| JEANCOCTEAU | French writer, designer and film director whose works include the novel Les Enfants terrible |
| DAVIDMAMET | Pulitzer Prize-winning US playwright, screenwriter and film director whose works include Speed-the-plow (1988) |
