| PEARLHARBOR | Film set in 1941 |
| BERLE | Comedian who married Joyce Mathews in 1941, divorced her in 1947 and married her again in 1949 "beca |
| MARIECLAIRE | Monthly magazine first published in France in 1937, followed by the UK in 1941 (5,6) |
| PLUTONIUM | Element whose isotopes are used as fuel in certain types of nuclear reactors and as an ingredient in nuclear weapons. It was first detected in 1941 by American chemists Glenn T. Seaborg, Joseph W. Ken |
| REPULSE | Renown-class Royal Navy battlecruiser launched in 1916 and sunk in a Japanese air attack in 1941 (7) |
| REBECCATRIBECA | Best Picture winner in 1941, but set in Lower Manhattan? |
| BIRTHOFTHEBLUES | What Bing starred in, in 1941 |
| LYDIA | Title film role for Merle Oberon in 1941 |
| GREENSTREET | Sydney ___, actor who played Kasper Gutman in 1941 film-noir The Maltese Falcon (11) |
| BABIYAR | Ravine in Kiev, Ukraine that was the site of a mass execution by the Nazis in 1941 (4,3) |
| OLSEN | Ole ___, vaudeville comedy partner of Chic Johnson with whom he starred in 1941 film Hellzapoppin' (5) |
| PETER | Actor who played Joel Cairo in 1941 film drama The Maltese Falcon (5,5) |
| LORRE | Peter ___, actor whose roles included Joel Cairo in 1941 film drama The Maltese Falcon (5) |
| ASKEY | Arthur ___, Liverpudlian comedian who starred as Tommy Gander in 1941 film The Ghost Train (5) |
| LATIMER | Detective-fiction and screenplay writer, his book Solomon's Vineyard, written in 1941, was too racy to be published in the US before 1950; Jonathan ... |
| MARYASTOR | American film actress who won an Academy Award in 1941 for "The Great Lie" |
| HEAVENCANWAIT | 1978 Warren Beatty film made in 1941 as Here Comes Mr. Jordan (6,3,4) |
| DESERTRATS | Soldiers who served with the British 7th Armoured Division in North Africa in 1941-42 (6,4) |
| FINLAND | In 1941, Germany had an ally in attacking Russia. Who? (7) |
| BISMARCK | German World War II battleship sunk in 1941 whose wreck was found in 1989 (8) |
