| TERRENCE | Days Of Heaven, Badlands and The Tree Of Life director Malick (8) |
| MALICK | Terrence ______, brilliant, visual director of Badlands & The New World. |
| CHERUBIM | Guardians of the Tree of Life |
| SEANPENN | Brad Pitt's costar in "The Tree of Life" |
| WHITE | Patrick -; Nobel Prize-winning author of novels including The Eye of the Storm, A Fringe of Leaves, Happy Valley and The Tree of Man (5) |
| BADLANDS | 1973 Terrence Malick film starring Martin Sheen (8) |
| TERRENCEMALICK | Acclaimed US director of The Tree of Life and Badlands |
| COCONUT | National tree of The Maldives, also called the tree of life because of its usefulness (7) |
| KNOWLEDGE | "...and the tree of ___ of good and evil" (Gen 2:9) |
| DDT | The Tree of Life, set in the '50s, had a shot of a vehicle spraying this. |
| TERRYJONES | "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" director |
| ASH | Name for the Old English symbol ae that was adopted by George William Russell as a pen name; or, the "tree of life" Fraxinus bearing bunches of keys (3) |
| EDEN | Where the tree of life is located in the Bible |
| ROWAN | Known in Celtic mythology as the "tree of life", the mountain ash or "witchbeam" as it is known regionally with red berries said to ward off evil spirits (5) |
| BRAD | Pitt of "The Tree of Life" |
| ENNIO | Best Music, Original Score Oscar nominee for The Untouchables, Bugsy, Days of Heaven, The Mission and Malena (5,9) |
| MORRICONE | Best Music, Original Score Oscar nominee for The Untouchables, Bugsy, Days of Heaven, The Mission and Malena (5,9) |
| SEAN | "The Tree of Life" star Penn |
| PITT | "The Tree of Life" star |
| THETHIN | Terrence Malick's return to cinema 20 years after Days Of Heaven (3,4) |
