| WIEST | Dianne located amid a David Bowie storyline (5) |
| DAMIT | David located amid a Dogma-metropolis double bill. (5) |
| RUSSO | Rene located amid a Miley Cyrus-Sondra Locke meeting (5) |
| ENNIO | Morricone located amid a Sean Penn Iowa address (5) |
| GENIE | The Jean ---, a David Bowie song on his Aladdin Sane album (5) |
| GENET | Jean ___, 1910-86, French writer alluded to in the title of a David Bowie hit (5) |
| REBEL | Half a David Bowie hit |
| ASHES | Word on either side of "to" in a David Bowie hit |
| ETHAN | Hawke located amid Kenneth Anger (5) |
| GERE | Richard located amid a Roger Ebert review (4) |
| RUPEE | Currency's rising amid a lot of bad odour (5) |
| ALBEE | American playwright left amid a social gathering (5) |
| TIBET | I live amid a race that's Oriental (5) |
| ALLOW | Grant left amid a difficult period? (5) |
| ASTOR | Amid a media storm, the lady made history (5) |
| OATES | Hall & ___ broke up, amid a legal fight (5) |
| ISLAM | Crisis left amid a religion (5) |
| PRIAM | Demure clothing for a David Threlfall role in Troy: Fall of a City (5) |
| THINK | Opinion that game is a David Niven fantasy romance... (4,6,5,8,2,1,6,2,4,3,5) |
| ATLAS | Cloud epic movie adapted from a David Mitchell novel (5) |
