| KENKESEY | Creator of Randle McMurphy and Chief Bromden |
| YES | Beats Randle McMurphy all ends up? That's right |
| CHINA | About army nurse Colleen McMurphy and comrades in the Vietnam War (----- Beach) |
| CUCKOO | 9 over whose nest Randle Patrick McMurphy flew? (6) |
| LENNYS | Dykstra and Randle of baseball |
| THERESA | Actress Randle of "Beverly Hills Cop III" |
| RATCHED | Nurse played by Louise Fletcher, adversary of Jack Nicholsons McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (7) |
| DANA | Played Colleen McMurphy in China Beach (---- Delany) |
| RANDLE | _____ McMurphy, institutional inmate in the 1976 film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (6) |
| ACORN | Word, related to the name of a cereal crop and of a unit of land, for any wild fruit or nut originally, later a specific cupule-borne forest fruit, squirrel snack and chief form of pig mast from which |
| ACHILLES | He was the son of Peleus and Thetis and chief hero of the Greeks in the Trojan War. In Troilus and Cressida (act 1, scene 2), Cressida says, "There among the Greeks ___, a better man than Troilus." |
| BOY | With 12-Across: 1990s sitcom whose stars included Ben Savage, Betsy Randle, and 24-Across |
| NASSAU | The capital and chief port of the Bahamas, on the coast of the island of New Providence (6) |
| SUVA | Capital city and chief port of Fiji, on the SE coast of the island of Viti Levu (4) |
| FIRSTSEALORD | --- --- --- and Chief of the Naval Staff, title of the military head of the Royal Navy (5,3,4) |
| AMYLOPECTIN | Polysaccharide and chief component of all starches (approx. 80 per cent), consisting of branched chains of glucose (11) |
| PORTOFSPAIN | The capital and chief port of Trinidad and Tobago, on the west coast of Trinidad (4,2,5) |
| KATESWANN | Former managing director of Homebase and chief executive of WH Smith |
| ANDREBRETON | French poet and art critic who was the founder and chief theorist of surrealism (5,6) |
| ABRAMS | Creighton, general and Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1972 to 1974 (6) |
