| SKAT | Card game in which jacks are the top four trumps |
| IVANA | An ace after four trump (5) |
| SEMI | Playoff game featuring two of the top four competitors |
| REO | One of the top four automakers, circa 1907 |
| TARGET | Mark and Jack are the recipients |
| THOSE | Which ones are the top stockings? (5) |
| AIRY | Why are the top class so indifferent? (4) |
| SKA | Game in which jacks are highest trumps |
| BOWLS | Trunks, we hear, in which Jack's the centre of attention |
| LULU | Opera in which Jack the Ripper is a character |
| WHITECHAPEL | Area of East London in which Jack the Ripper committed his crimes (11) |
| MARSATTACKS | 1996 sci-fi comedy in which Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close play the president and first lady |
| FAIL | Without ___ 2002 novel written by Lee Child in which Jack Reacher helps Mary Ellen Froelich protect the Vice-President-Elect |
| BACK | Never Go ___ 2013 novel by Lee Child in which Jack Reacher helps the commander of his old unit Major Susan Turner |
| GONE | ___ Tomorrow 2009 novel by Lee Child in which Jack Reacher investigates the death of Susan Mark |
| AFEWGOODMEN | Military courtroom drama in which Jack Nicholson's character said Tom Cruise's couldn't handle the truth |
| ONEFLEWOVERTHECUCKOOSNEST | 1975 film in which Jack Nicholson plays a patient in a mental institution (3,4,4,3,7,4) |
| REDS | Film in which Jack Nicholson portrays Eugene O'Neill |
| ADJOURN | Postpone a round curiously in which Jack features (7) |
| THEODDCOUPLE | 1968 comedy in which Jack Lemmon played neatnik Felix Ungar: 3 wds. |
