| HORSEMEN | Charles Chauvel directed and Chips Rafferty starred in this this 1940 film, Forty Thousand ... |
| HARTNETT | Josh, actor who starred as Matt Sullivan in the film 40 Days and 40 Nights (8) |
| ARK | Raiders of the Lost ___ was highest grossing film 40 yrs ago (3) |
| SUNDOWNERS | Popular Australian outback movie with Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, Deborah Kerr & Chips Rafferty, |
| HUMOR | "I fail to see the ___ in this" ("This is not funny") |
| ASPENS | Makeup of Pando, a grove of more than forty thousand trees connected by a single root system |
| FUNK | "The ___ of forty thousand years" |
| RATS | Chips Rafferty movie, The ... Of Tobruk |
| THESE | This, this and this (5) |
| ECHO | Sound like this this this this |
| NOREMEDY | There is _ _ for this : this cannot be cured in any way? (2,6) |
| ISINGLASS | This this? No, but in curtains with peepholes (9) |
| ORDERS | Says "Do this, this and that." |
| ESP | If you have this, this puzzle isn't much of a challenge |
| STEALERSWHEEL | Band formed in Paisley in 1972 by Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty (8,5) |
| SQUIB | Parents' quibble, holding this this firework |
| YODA | Speaks like this, this sci-fi character does |
| DONNAPAULSEN | Harvey Specter's former legal secretary and a close confidante in Suits portrayed by Sarah Rafferty: 2 wds. |
| NIGHTOWL | Song and studio album released by Gerry Rafferty in 1979 (5,3) |
| WOOD | Played magistrate Michael Rafferty in Rafferty's Rules (John ----) |