| DEEPENED | Got more intriguing, as a movie's plot |
| JUICIER | more intriguing, as a rumor |
| GETGOOD | Start to improve, as a movie plot |
| HOLES | Bad things for a movie's plot to have |
| CAPER | Complicated bank heist in a movie plot, for example |
| COVER | Title case: Intriguing as its title may be, you can't tell a book by this |
| SCENARIO | I censor a complex movie's plot |
| CEMETERY | Zombie film's plot? |
| DUB | Insert vocals into as a movie's soundtrack |
| RETIME | Measure again, as a movie's length |
| SPOILS | Ruins, as a movie's ending |
| SPOIL | Ruin, as a movie's ending |
| SEE | Catch, as a flick |
| COCONUTS | "I've got a loverly bunch of ...; There they are a-standing in a row; Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head; Give 'em a twist, a flick of the wrist; Is what the showman said" |
| THEPLOTTHICKENS | Ground becoming deeper? That's more intriguing (3,4,8) |
| CUTAWAY | A tapering morning, newmarket or tail coat; a drawing or "exploded view" showing interior workings; a shot or scene that deviates from a movie's action; or, a flying trapeze trick (7) |
| PROTEGEE | Eve Harrington vis-a-vis Margo Channing, in a classic movie plot |
| METROPOLIS | Expressionist movie plot is more complicated |
| BOY | ___ meets girl (start of a classic movie plot) |
| LASH | The end of a whip; a stripe or swipe administered with said scourge; a flick or sweep; or, a stroke of satire (4) |
