| RALPHRICHARDSON | Knighted actor of stage and screen (5,10) |
| IRONS | Actor of stage and screen whose films include The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Mission and Reversal of Fortune (5) |
| SHER | Actor of stage and screen who wrote the plays I.D. and Primo (4) |
| RICHARDSON | Sir Ralph David -; actor of stage and screen who starred in films including Doctor Zhivago and Oh! What a Lovely War (10) |
| OLIVIER | Laurence ---, 20th-Century English actor of stage and screen (7) |
| VANESSAWILLIAMS | Voluptuous woman of stage and screen |
| SAHARABERNHARDT | Mali's noted actress of stage and screen? |
| IANHOLM | Late knighted actor in Lord Of The Rings and Alien (3,4) |
| CAINE | Michael ---, knighted actor who won Oscars for his roles in The Cider House Rules and Hannah And Her Sisters (5) |
| USTINOV | Surname of the knighted actor, writer and film director, who published the autobiography Dear Me (7) |
| MICHAELCAINE | Knighted actor who won Oscars for his roles in The Cider House Rules and Hannah And Her Sisters (7,5) |
| PETERUSTINOV | Knighted actor, raconteur and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador |
| HOLM | Ian _, knighted actor, Oscarnominated for Chariots Of Fire (1981) |
| STUBBS | Actress of stage and screen formerly married to Trevor Nunn; her many films include Privileged, A Summer Story, Jack and Sarah and Sense and Sensibility (6) |
| IANMCKELLEN | Knighted actor currently treading the boards in London's West End as King Lear in the play of the same name (3,8) |
| NIGELHAWTHORNE | Knighted actor from Northern Ireland may in backing English stage (5,9) |
| ALECGUINNESS | (Knighted) actor - genuine class (anag) (4,8) |
| ALEC | Knighted actor, - Guinness (4) |
| COCAINE | Crack about old knighted actor (7) |
| HOPKINS | Knighted actor who played Hannibal Lecter, Anthony ___ (7) |
