| LARUE | Lash lashing his way through Westerns in the forties and fifties |
| PLAYINGFOR | As the Famous Five were in the forties and fifties, foiling by sharp manoeuvring (7,3,4) |
| HIBS | As the Famous Five were in the forties and fifties, foiling by sharp manoeuvring (7,3,4) |
| EVAPERON | First Lady of the forties and fifties |
| SHANE | 1953 western in the National Film Registry |
| HOUSE | Hugh Laurie limped his way through eight series of what on television? (5) |
| OLIVIA | She sued Warners in the forties and won, moving to Paramount to make two Oscar-winning movies, To Each His Own and The Heiress; ... de Havilland |
| GOOGIEWITHERS | Actress, best-known in the Forties and early Fifties, who played governor Faye Boswell in Within These Walls |
| MIDDLEAGESPREAD | Increase in bulk associated with one's forties and fifties (6-3,6) |
| PORTLAND | Oregon city, noted as a centre for organised crime in the 1940s and '50s and of counterculture in the 1960s and '70s (8) |
| MIDDLEAGE | Time of life typically associated with one's forties and fifties |
| RANK | J Arthur ___, British industrialist whose companies dominated the British film industry in the 1940s and 1950s |
| JIVE | Lively style of dance popular in the 1940s and 1950s (4) |
| THEALBERTHALL | With a similar name to London's iconic venue, this was the main place for entertainment in Australia's capital city in the 1940s and 50s (3,6,4) |
| NIVEN | David -----, suave British actor in Hollywood in the 1940s and 50s (5) |
| UGLY | Box office fire: "The Good, the Bad and the ___" is one of the most watched spaghetti westerns in Hollywood's history |
| BOGART | Hollywood screen icon of the 1940s and 1950s, his many film credits included "The Maltese Falcon" and "The African Queen" (6) |
| SUGARRAY | First names of boxers Robinson and Leonard, middleweight world champions in the 1940s and 1980s (5,3) |
| HOGAN | Ben _, American golfer who won nine majors in the 1940s and '50s (5) |
| HEDDA | In the forties, this hopper held secrets. (5) |
