| JACKLEMMON | His first film was "It Should Happen To You" |
| COINCIDENCE | Strange it should happen with company showing how often it occurs (11) |
| INCASE | If it should happen (2,4) |
| ELVIS | His first film was "Love Me Tender" |
| HENRYFONDA | His first film was "The Farmer Takes A Wife" |
| PAULNEWMAN | His first film was "The Silver Chalice" |
| KARMA | A mark of what's going to happen to you in the future for what you did in the past (5) |
| SAYSO | "I'm sorry to ___ but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you" - Dr. Seuss (3,2) |
| TALES | Perry Como promised, "Fairy ..., can come true, it can happen to you; If you're young at heart" |
| BOORADLEY | Recluse in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird played by Robert Duvall in his first film role (3,6) |
| PEREZ | Rosie of 'It Could Happen to You' |
| ALLTHETIME | Possible answer to "Does this ever happen to you?" |
| WOODYALLEN | His first film appearance was in "What's New Pussycat" |
| WOODY | American film director/actor whose first film was the 1965 comedy "What's New Pussycat?". He had a family holiday in Mallorca to welcome in the year 2006 (5,5) |
| ALLEN | American film director/actor whose first film was the 1965 comedy "What's New Pussycat?". He had a family holiday in Mallorca to welcome in the year 2006 (5,5) |
| COULD | "it ___ happen to you" |
| WHATGOESAROUNDCOMESAROUND | Idiom meaning if you mistreat people, the same will happen to you (4,4,6,5,6) |
| GORE | 2006 Oscar winner for his first film |
| RICHARDGERE | Maybe I Do actor; in his first film for six years (7,4) |
| DEVPATEL | Actor who directed his first film Monkey Man in 2024 (3,5) |
