| THOMPSON | Emma -; recipient of two Academy Awards who scripted and starred in Sense and Sensibility (8) |
| GENE | --- Hackman, American actor; recipient of two Academy Awards (4) |
| HOPE | 19-time host of the Academy Awards who also received five honorary Oscars (4) |
| WISE | Actor who starred in Sense and Sensibility with Emma Thompson, whom he later married (4) |
| BEN | Actor who co-scripted and appeared in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting (3,7) |
| AFFLECK | Actor who co-scripted and appeared in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting (3,7) |
| ATRANDOM | Drama not scripted and not following any prearranged order |
| OLEANNA | 1994 film scripted and directed by David Mamet (7) |
| JHABVALA | Ruth Prawer ---, Germanborn British writer who won the Booker Prize and two Academy Awards (8) |
| DASHWOOD | Elinor ___, lead character in Sense and Sensibility (8) |
| MARIANNE | Elinor's sister in "Sense and Sensibility" |
| SUSPECTS | Crime thriller that won two Academy Awards, The Usual ___ |
| SUSPENSE | We object quietly in sense in a state of anxiety (8) |
| CATEBLANCHETT | Aussie actress, winner of two Academy Awards, three Golden Globes and three BAFTAs (4,9) |
| NAUSEOUS | A druggie, ultimately lacking in sense, about to retch? (8) |
| HANKS | Tom _, winner of two Academy Awards for Best Actor (5) |
| EMMATHOMPSON | The Remains of the Day actress who played Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility: 2 wds. |
| WINSLET | Actress in Sense and Sensibility, The Reader, The Dressmaker, Blackbird, Ammonite and the forthcoming film Black Beauty as the voice of the title character (7) |
| AUSTEN | Jane -; novelist who wrote about the Dashwood sisters in Sense and Sensibility (6) |
| ALANRICKMAN | Die Hard actor who played Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility: 2 wds. |
