| TSELIOT | High-modernist poet with three Tony awards, two of which were for "Cats" |
| JAG | Car, two of which were used by John Prescott (3) |
| ALDA | Alan with three Tony nominations |
| MARYMARTIN | She won three Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for South Pacific Peter Pan and The Sound of Music: 2 wds. |
| GWENVERDON | She won three Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for Damn Yankees New Girl in Town and Redhead: 2 wds. |
| NATHANLANE | U.S. actor; winner of three Tony Awards and an Olivier Award (6,4) |
| HALPRINCE | Broadway producer with a record 21 Tony Awards (2 wds.) |
| ALANCUMMING | "The Good Wife" actor who cohosted the 2015 Tony Awards: 2 wds. |
| JAMESCORDEN | Late-night star who hosted the 2016 Tony Awards: 2 wds. |
| LANDSAT | The byname of Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS), any of a series of uncrewed U.S. scientific satellites, the first of which were launched in 1972, 1975, and 1978 to collect information about |
| CRAB | Crustacean with ten legs, two of which form pincers (4) |
| CONVERSATIONS | ___ With Myself a compilation of Nelson Mandela's writing many of which were written while he was in prison |
| BOYNE | A river in the eastern Republic of Ireland, the banks of which were the scene of a 1690 battle (5) |
| JGFARRELL | Novelist best known for his Empire Trilogy, two novels of which were awarded Booker Prizes (1,1,7) |
| OTTER | Animal related to weasels, minks and martens, two of which are depicted on the Royal Bank of Scotland £10 note (5) |
| BERIBERI | Fruit, two of which are said produce disease (4-4) |
| OBELISKS | Tapered monuments, two of which stand in the Place de la Concorde in Paris (8) |
| TANTALUS | Figure in Greek mythology for whom fruit and water were for ever out of reach (8) |
| TREE | 'And the leaves of the ___ were for the healing of the nations' (Revelation 22: 2) (4) |
| EASTINDIAMAN | General name for certain ships used by the major European trading powers from the 17th to 19th centuries, some of which were known as "tea clippers" |