| VIOLADESMOND | Businesswoman who challenged segregation at a Nova Scotia movie theater in 1946 |
| SNAREDRUM | Instrument killing a Nova Scotia running back (5,4) |
| PICCADILLY | The climax to American Werewolf in London took place in a movie theater in this circus. |
| PASSION | ___ pit (drive-in movie theater, in older slang) |
| IDAHO | "Born in a trunk in the Princess Theater in Pocatello, ___": Ira Gershwin lyric from a song in "A Star is Born" |
| REEL | Spool; as used in movie theatres in times gone by? |
| DDT | Supposed to kill bedbugs, which were in some N.Y. movie theaters in 2010. |
| KINO | Movie theater, in Europe |
| CINEMA | Movie theater, in Manchester |
| CINE | Movie theater, in Marseille |
| TOPGUN | Tom Cruise franchise that saved movie theaters in 2022 |
| REDWOOD | John, Conservative politician who challenged John Major in a party leadership contest in 1995 (7) |
| ARACHNE | In mythology, a talented weaver who challenged Athena and was turned into a spider (7) |
| SUZY | Take a Vow businesswoman who lost her life in the Dales limo crash (4) |
| MERTON | Take a Vow businesswoman who lost her life in the Dales limo crash (6) |
| ARDEN | Elizabeth, professional name of Canadian-born U.S. businesswoman who founded a cosmetics company in 1910 (5) |
| HUNT | Jeremy, Conservative politician who challenged Boris Johnson for the party leadership in 2019 (4) |
| HESELTINE | Surname of the politician who challenged Margaret Thatcher in the 1990 leadership contest (9) |
| GINA | ____ Miller, business owner who challenged Brexit in the courts (4) |
| NIGELSHORT | English chess player who challenged Garry Kasparov for the World Chess Championship in 1993 |
