| SERGIOLEONE | I see Loren go off Italian film director (6,5) |
| FELLINI | see 43ac, Italian film director whose works include the 1960 film La Dolce Vita |
| CARLOPONTI | Italian film director and husband of Sophia Loren (5,5) |
| SOPHIALOREN | Italian film icon who was Cary Grant's Houseboat companion (6,5) |
| NANNI | ____ Moretti, Italian film director noted for his 2002 film The Son's Room (5) |
| FEDERICO | and 17dn, Italian film director whose works include the 1960 film La Dolce Vita |
| PIERPAOLOPASOLINI | Italian film director, born in 1922 |
| PASOLINI | Pier Paolo -, twentieth century Italian film director |
| LEONE | Sergio, Italian film director noted for spaghetti westerns (5) |
| DESICA | Vittorio, Italian film director noted for Bicycle Thieves (2,4) |
| ANTONIONI | Michelangelo --, Italian film director (9) |
| BERTOLUCCI | Bernardo -, 1941-2018, Italian film director (10) |
| VISCONTI | Luchino _, 20th-century Italian film director (8) |
| SALAMI | Alas! I'm off Italian sausage (6) |
| OLMI | Noted Italian film director |
| ZEFFIRELLI | Franco -; Italian film director noted for his 1968 dramatisation of Romeo and Juliet and Brother Sun, Sister Moon (10) |
| SERGIO | Italian film director credited as the inventor of the Spaghetti Western genre (6,5) |
| COPPOLA | Italian film director |
| LINA | Italian film director Wertmuller |
| IGNORES | Shrugs off Italian man from start to finish |
