| FARGO | Coen Brothers film set mostly in Minnesota starring Frances Mcdormand (5) |
| EMPIRE | ____ Of The Sun, 1988 film set mostly in Shanghai, starring Christian Bale (6) |
| RIO | 2011 animated film set mostly in Brazil |
| SPEED | 90s film set mostly on a bus, starring 21 Across, 4 and 5 Down and 20 Down (5) |
| ARGO | Best Picture winner whose name rhymes with a Coen brothers film set in the Midwest |
| THREE | Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, 2017 crime drama film starring Frances McDormand (5) |
| JIBES | Having foresail set mostly aback results in taunts (5) |
| OUTSIDE | Film starring Frances McDormand, released in 2018, Three Billboards ---- Ebbing, Missouri (7) |
| NOMAD | Frances McDormand plays one in a 2020 film |
| LAURELCANYON | 2002 film drama starring Frances McDormand, Kate Beckinsale and Christian Bale (6,6) |
| NOMADLAND | 2020 film by Chloe Zhao starring Frances McDormand (9) |
| OSCAR | Award won by Frances McDormand in 2021 (and 2018 and 1997) |
| OLIVE | Frances McDormand TV miniseries, Kitteridge (5) |
| GUYMANNERING | Walter Scott novel, set mostly in Galloway, about a boy kidnapped by smugglers (3,9) |
| ATL | 2006 coming-of-age movie set mostly in Mechanicsville |
| THEBASKERVILLES | The Hound Of ____, Sherlock Holmes novel set mostly in Dartmoor (3,12) |
| PADREPADRONE | 1977 Taviani Brothers film, set in Sardinia (5,7) |
| OTHELLO | Play set mostly in Cyprus |
| DUCKSOUP | *Marx Brothers film set in Freedonia |
| BURNAFTER | And 15 2008 Coen Brothers comedy-drama film starring George Clooney and Frances McDormand (4,5,7) |
