| ONELMSTREET | Freddy Krueger horror thriller, A Nightmare ___ |
| ONELM | Freddy Krueger horror thriller, A Nightmare ___ Street (2,3) |
| STREET | Freddy Krueger horror thriller, A Nightmare on Elm ___ |
| NIGHTMARE | Freddy Krueger horror thriller, A ___ on Elm Street |
| ELM | Freddy Krueger horror, A Nightmare on...Street (3) |
| LIGHTLITERATURE | Easy reading a" eg. taut thriller a" I ordered (5,10) |
| LINWOOD | Canadian author Mr. Barclay of new thriller A Noise Downstairs |
| FAR | Michael Caine war thriller, A Bridge Too ___ |
| FEW | Courtroom thriller, A ___ Good Men |
| SUSPENSE | Thriller, a ... novel |
| ENGLUND | Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street, Robert ------- (7) |
| ALLEY | Nightmare ___ 2021 neo-noir film by Guillermo del Toro starring Bradley Cooper as a carnival worker |
| WHITTAKER | Jodie -, actress whose roles have included Mia Selva in 2011 film thriller A Thousand Kisses Deep (9 |
| HISTORY | Viggo Mortensen and Maria Bello 2005 crime thriller, A ___ of Violence (7) |
| SRI | ___ Lanka (country where the 2013 Ben Kingsley thriller "A Common Man" is set) |
| NED | "Nightmare ___," 1997 Disney animated series |
| ABBEY | Nightmare ___, 1818 Thomas Love Peacock novel (5) |
| MISERY | Horror thriller novel by Stephen King later adapted for a film starring Kathy Bates (6) |
| KEY | Horror thriller, The Skeleton ___ (3) |
| SKELETON | Horror thriller starring Kate Hudson and Peter Sarsgaard, The ___ Key (8) |
