| YALTA | Location of the 1945 Allied conference (5) |
| WAUGH | Author of the 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn _ (5) |
| ERNST | Biochemist and corecipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, _ Chain (5) |
| POTSDAM | German city on the River Havel, scene of a 1945 Allied conference (7) |
| CLAIR | Director of films including The Italian Straw Hat and the 1945 adaptation of And Then There Were None (5) |
| CAIRO | Site of two 1943 Allied conferences |
| ALONE | Enduringly popular song from the 1945 musical Carousel (5,5,4,5) |
| WILDE | Cornel --, actor who played the composer Chopin in the 1945 film 'A Song to Remember' (5) |
| ALGER | Mr. Hiss, U.S. state department official and adviser at the 1945 Yalta conference (5) |
| LEPEW | Toon first introduced in the 1945 short "Odor-able Kitty" |
| DYLANTHOMAS | Writer of the 1945 poem Fern Hill (5,6) |
| DAVIDLEAN | Director of the 1945 film Blithe Spirit (5,4) |
| ORWELL | George _, author of the 1945 novella Animal Farm (6) |
| SIRALEXANDERFLEMING | Knighted bacteriologist, winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize (3,9,7) |
| ALAMOGORDO | Site of the 1945 Trinity test |
| HITCHCOCK | Alfred, director of the 1945 film Spellbound (9) |
| LEAN | David, director of the 1945 film Blithe Spirit (4) |
| PROKOFIEV | Russian composer of the 1945 ballet Romeo And Juliet, Sergei _ (9) |
| EVELYN | Author of the 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited, _ Waugh (6) |
| BARBARASTANWYCK | (GKN) Star of the 1945 romantic comedy film Christmas in Connecticut (7,8) |
