| SURI | Daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes |
| EXES | Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, e.g. |
| TINGLE | Dark comedy thriller with Helen Mirren and Katie Holmes, Teaching Mrs ... (6) |
| CREEK | James Van Der Beek and Katie Holmes teen drama series, Dawson's _ (5) |
| CONTI | Nina _, ventriloquist and daughter of Tom (5) |
| STEPH | ___ Cunningham-Lomax, daughter of Tom and Peri in (5) |
| HOLMES | Katie _, ex-wife of Tom Cruise (6) |
| MIMI | ___ Rogers, American actress, first wife of Tom Cruise (4) |
| CATEGORY | Classification of Tom Cruise trailer: gruesome (8) |
| SYRACUSE | Birthplace of Tom Cruise or Archimedes |
| ETHAN | First name of Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible character |
| TOPGUNMAVERICK | Highest-grossing film of Tom Cruise's career (3,3:8) |
| MAVERICK | Call sign of Tom Cruise's Top Gun character (8) |
| DEADRECKONING | It's one of Tom Cruise's missions (4,9) |
| GOOSE | Played by Anthony Edwards, who is the best friend of Tom Cruise's Maverick in Top Gun? (5) |
| EX | Katie Holmes, to Tom Cruise |
| USA | Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky's Olympic team: Abbr. |
| MOMS | Brooke and Katie, e.g. (B&B) |
| NEWSWOMEN | Joy Reid and Katie Couric, for two |
| OLYMPIANS | Simone Biles, Sunisa Lee, and Katie Ledecky, for three |