| MALTIN | Critic Leonard who wrote an eponymous annual movie guide for forty-five years |
| LEONARDMALTIN | Film critic who published an annual Movie Guide from 1969 to 2014: 2 wds. |
| GOODALL | Champion of the chimpanzee, her forty-five year study of primates redefined 'being human'; Jane ... |
| RECIPE | On and coming up, kind of movie guide (6) |
| WOOF | Worst rating from the VideoHound movie guide |
| ELMORE | Leonard who wrote "Get Shorty" |
| NIMOY | Leonard who wrote "I Am Spock" |
| COHEN | Leonard who wrote the song "Hallelujah" |
| RUBY | GIFT FOR FORTY YEARS OR PERSON WHO JUMPED OUT OF THE GROOM'S BACHELOR CAKE |
| KAWHI | Leonard who is the only player to win NBA Finals MVPs for teams in both conferences |
| JEANE | ___ Dixon, self-styled seer who wrote an astrology book for dogs |
| LOCKE | John ---, English philosopher; an early empiricist who wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (5) |
| TALESE | Author who wrote an acclaimed profile of Frank Sinatra for Esquire |
| HOURGLASS | For forty years this TV soap opera has been introduced, "Like sands through the ..., so are the days |
| EXCEL | Do well for forty in Rome, it's said |
| CATNAP | Cover and keep six-footer back for forty winks (6) |
| ADAMSMITH | 35-year-old Washington congressman... who wrote an extremely influential 18th-century book |
| MALTHUS | Economist who wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population," 1798 |
| MARCOPOLO | Venetian merchant who wrote an account of his own travels and met Kublai Khan (5,4) |
| LEE | Author who wrote an autobiographical trilogy including Cider with Rosie (3) |
