| CARRADINE | John, actor whose film roles included Erle Kenton in The Howling (9) |
| CASSAVETES | John, actor whose film roles included Guy Woodhouse in Rosemary's Baby (10) |
| HANNAH | John. actor whose film roles include Jonathan Carnahan in 1999's The Mummy (6) |
| ASTIN | John, actor whose film roles include Sgt Valdez in Viva Max! (5) |
| SAXON | John, actor whose film roles include Lieut. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street (5) |
| GOODMAN | John -, actor whose roles have included Fred Flintstone in 1994 family film The Flintstones (7) |
| SAVAGE | John, actor whose films include 1979's The Onion Field (6) |
| PSEUDONYM | A. A. Fair, to Erle Stanley Gardner |
| HEARD | John, actor whose films include Home Alone (5) |
| DANTE | Joe ?, director of the films Gremlins and The Howling (5) |
| JOEDANTE | "The Howling" director |
| WEREWOLF | Creature from "The Howling" |
| WEREWOLFMOVIES | "The Howling" franchise, for example |
| PERRYMASON | Name of the TV lawyer who first appeared in Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case Of The Velvet Claws (5,5 |
| MASON | Lawyer Perry ... first appeared in Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case Of The Velvet Claws |
| PERRY | Lawyer creation of Erle Stanley Gardner who first appeared in 1933 novel The Case of the Velvet Claws (5,5) |
| NIECE | "The Case of the Sleepwalker's --", a Perry Mason story by Erle Stanley Gardner (5) |
| DELLASTREET | Secretary of the fictional lawyer Perry Mason, created by US author Erle Stanley Gardner in 1933 (5,6) |
| CASE | Recurrent word in titles of Erle Stanley Gardner's books |
| BERTHACOOL | Detective in a series of Erle Stanley Gardner mysteries |