| ODDCOUPLE | It was a Broadway play and then a movie before becoming a popular sitcom, with The: 2 wds. |
| FRIENDS | Popular sitcom with Ross, Joey and Phoebe (7) |
| HAMSTER | The ram's becoming a popular pet for the children (7) |
| ATHOUSANDCLOWNS | Herb Gardner Broadway play and movie |
| ARAISININTHESUN | Broadway play (and later film) starring 47A |
| STIRPIS | Of a root, stalk, and then a family, lineage, and so a cause |
| ARMY | Dad's _, popular sitcom of the 1960s and 70s about the Home Guard (4) |
| ROUNDABOUT | Part of a fight and then a whole one ___ it's fair entertainment (10) |
| BOYLE | Danny -, film director set to direct the new James Bond movie before removing himself from the project due to creative differences (5) |
| PLAYITAGAINSAM | 1972 film based on a Broadway play of the same name by Woody Allen |
| LEONORA | A woman, a man and then a woman (7) |
| AMPERE | He was a politician before becoming a famous physicist |
| TIMEWARP | "Rocky Horror" dance illustrated in this grid [and then a step to the right] |
| PABLOPICASSO | Spanish painter born in 1881 who had Blue and Rose periods before becoming a leading Cubist (5,7) |
| NEMESIS | Last Star Trek: The Next Generation movie before the reboots (7) |
| SORKIN | Writer who adapted the book for a Broadway play in 2018 |
| AIRPORT | Where you land a good right and then a left |
| ATONCE | Now and then, a temperature goes to head (2,4) |
| ARIES | A rise is necessary and then a sign (5) |
| NOREGRETS | Waders put on indoors now and then - a hit for 25Ac (2,7) |