| FILMY | Clouded the picture at the end of May (5) |
| SNAPUP | Quickly get the picture at university (4,2) |
| ANORA | Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars (5) |
| CRASH | Film starring Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle and Matt Dillon, Best Picture at the 2005 Oscars (5) |
| AFTER | One _, Paul Thomas Anderson film awarded Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 2026 (6,5,7) |
| POLLY | Ballot at the end of May for The Liver Birds actor Ms James (5) |
| YEARN | Desire to be paid at the end of May (5) |
| TOKYO | Around the end of May took out foreign capital (5) |
| BYRON | Lord possibly born around the end of May (5) |
| METAL | Sound of _____ is one of the nominees for Best Picture at next Sunday's Academy Awards. (5) |
| KAYAK | It's okay to remove coat while going to and fro around the end of May in boat |
| INSET | Picture at home, beside the TV (5) |
| GNOME | Subject of the first picture in Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" |
| FIGHT | Contest picture at altitude (5) |
| ASPIC | Tasteful start of a picture, at some cinemas |
| UPEND | Turn things upside down at Universal Pictures, at last (5) |
| XRAYS | Set of pictures at a dentist's |
| THESHAPEOFWATER | Winner of Best Picture at the 2018 (90th) Oscars (3,5,2,5) |
| RAVEL | Composer who orchestrated Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" |
| SINAI | Mount pictures at last in oddly neglected cabin |
