| ALMODOVAR | Director of "All About My Mother" and "Parallel Mothers" |
| PEDROALMODOVAR | Spanish director whose films include All About My Mother and Volver (5,9) |
| LLAMA | It's all about my mother and that beastly Peruvian (5) |
| EDWOOD | Tim Burton's biopic of the B movie director who posthumously won the Golden Turkey for the worst director of all time (2,4) |
| SOUSA | WWI director of all US navy bands |
| ANTOINE | Director of all three Equalizer movies (7,5) |
| FAQUA | Director of all three Equalizer movies (7,5) |
| PEDRO | "All About My Mother" director AlmodAA³var |
| BARCELONASPAIN | Shooting locale for much of Pedro Almodovar's "All About My Mother" (1999) |
| AZORIN | Spanish actor known for All About My Mother, Eloy - (6) |
| MALADY | My mother and some other woman appear to be sick of it |
| NIELS | French Canadian actor, star of Xavier Dolan's I Killed My Mother and Heartbeats, - Schneider (5) |
| FIONA | Sally Quinn in My Mother and Other Strangers (5,12) |
| OSHAUGHNESSY | Sally Quinn in My Mother and Other Strangers (5,12) |
| MERRYMAKING | Be wrong to interrupt my mother and family having grand celebration (11) |
| MALADIES | Ailments suffered by my mother and other females (8) |
| ALIBIS | "I was at my mother's," and others |
| TROPIC | Torrid zone / either of the two small circles of the celestial sphere on each side of and parallel to the equator which the sun reaches at its greatest declination north or south |
| ORR | Mary whose short story "The Wisdom of Eve" was the basis of "All About Eve" |
| BARCODE | A machine-readable arrangement of numbers and parallel lines of different widths printed on an item |