| RUSS | Mr. Meyer, director of the film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (4) |
| MEYER | US director of films Up!, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Vixen! (4,5) |
| RUSSMEYER | US director of films Up!, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Vixen! |
| FASTER | "___, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (1965 Russ Meyer movie) |
| REED | Sir Carol, English director of the film The Third Man (4) |
| AMMA | _ Asante, director of the film A United Kingdom (4) |
| CORMAN | Roger, director of the film The Fall of the House of Usher (6) |
| DEMME | Jonathan, director of the film The Silence of the Lambs (5) |
| CLAIR | Rene, director of the film The Flame of New Orleans (5) |
| WELLES | Surname of the actor, writer, producer and director of the film Citizen Kane (6) |
| MURDER | I'll give you the drum! I hesitate to kill! (6) |
| SEAN | Director of the film for which 31 Down won her award, _ Baker (4) |
| STURGES | Preston ___, director of the film comedies Unfaithfully Yours and The Lady Eve (7) |
| APTED | Michael, director of the film Gorillas in the Mist (5) |
| DENNIS | & 14Ac. Director of the film The Last Movie (6,6) |
| SLAUGHTER | Wood louse running around? Ugh! Kill it (9) |
| NOTTO | "Wait a minute. I'll decide with whom my wife's going to have dinner and whom she's going to kill!" exclaimed Jack Benny in the 1942 comedy classic, To Be Or ... Be (3,2) |
| ELIMINATE | Taking part in duel, I'm in a temper - kill! |
| HOODOO | ...like a hex, when a gangster comes with that licence to kill! (6) |
| SPOONER | I'd say bill and coo and he'd say 'Kill!' and 'Boo!' (7) |
