| LEMMON | Jack -, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar winner for Save the Tiger (6) |
| JACKLEMMON | Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar winner for Save the Tiger (4,6) |
| JACK | Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar winner for Save The Tiger (4) |
| WARDEN | Jack, Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for 1975 film Shampoo (6) |
| NICHOLSON | Jack -, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar winner for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (9) |
| ALBERTSON | Jack, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar winner for The Subject Was Roses (9) |
| PALANCE | Jack, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar winner for City Slickers (7) |
| WILD | Jack -, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for Oliver! (4) |
| SOS | It's a "backronym": Despite the lore, these three letters never actually stood for "Save Our Souls" (In fact, it didn't stand for anything) |
| NEN | Palindromic Robb who shares the MLB record for saves in one postseason, with seven in 2002 |
| RUBENS | Painter of princes, hunts, battles, nudes, mythological and religious scenes - his works include Venus and Adonis, The Tiger Hunt, The Great Last Judgement and The Triumph of Henry IV (6) |
| SEADOGS | Jack's best friends? (3,4) |
| ICON | Tiny floppy disk, for "Save" |
| AUTO | Prefix for "save" |
| SANDRA | _ Oh, stars in The Tiger's Apprentice (6) |
| EXOTIC | Joe _, convicted criminal otherwise known as the Tiger King (6) |
| CHOREA | Nervous condition of one of the Tiger economies, we hear (6) |
| MARIANO | Rivera known for saves |
| BALBOA | Rocky who had the "Eye of the Tiger" |
| TIGRIS | Panthera ___, Latin name of the tiger (6) |
