| SCHWARZENEER | He has a two-second cameo in 2003's The Rundown |
| MOSDEF | Rapper who co-starred in 2003's "The Italian Job" |
| BIEL | Actress Jessica who starred in 2003's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" |
| LAYERED | Did You Know? The North American River Otter a.k.a. Lontra Canadensis has a two-___ coat |
| TONGA | Secret society has a two-wheeler |
| TLDR | "Here's the rundown", in internet slang |
| BRIEFED | Gave the rundown |
| PETERJACKSON | Filmmaker who won three Oscars (Best Picture Director and Adapted Screenplay) for 2003's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: 2 wds. |
| HAT | 2003's "The Cat in the -" |
| TOWERS | The Two -, second volume of The Lord of the Rings (6) |
| SPARROW | Captain Jack -------, Johnny Depp's role in 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (7) |
| CERIMON | He was a lord of Ephesus. In Pericles (act 3, scene 2), Second Gentleman of Ephesus says, "Your honor has through Ephesus pour'd forth/ Your charity,... / Your purse, still open, hath built Lord ___." |
| LOCK | One of two second-row players in a rugby union scrum |
| WILLFERRELL | In 2003's Elf, this actor's character holds up the escalator line at Macy's since he can't figure out how to ride it |
| IGGYPOP | The Stooges frontman who appeared in 2003's Coffee and Cigarettes (4,3) |
| DAHL | Sophie, model and author who wrote 2003's The Man With The Dancing Eyes (4) |
| ZEVON | His final album was 2003's "The Wind" |
| ADRIEN | Oscar-winning star of 2003's The Pianist, ------ Brody (6) |
| BROWN | Author who wrote 2003's The Da Vinci Code, Dan _ (5) |
| ELALAMEIN | Coastal town in north-western Egypt, the scene of two Second World War battles (2,7) |
