| RONS | Paul & Howard |
| LEMAT | Actor Paul of American Graffiti and Melvin and Howard |
| FINE | Comedy cohort of Howard and Howard |
| ADLER | American actor whose TV roles include Herman 'Hesh' Rabkin in The Sopranos and Howard Lyman in The Good Wife and The Good Fight (5,5) |
| KENS | Follett and Howard |
| RAJ | TV pal of Sheldon, Leonard, and Howard |
| LESLIES | Actors Odom and Howard |
| ROSEMARIE | 1954 film musical starring Ann Blyth and Howard Keel (4,5) |
| NAWORTH | ? Castle, home of the Dacre and Howard families northeast of Carlisle, Cumbria |
| DOMINO | Popular operetta by Charles Cuvillier and Howard Carr (5,6)) |
| LILAC | Popular operetta by Charles Cuvillier and Howard Carr (5,6) |
| MARY | ___ Steenburgen Melvin and Howard actress who plays Carol in the 2023 film Book Club: The Next Chapter |
| STEENBURGEN | Mary -, Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar winner for Melvin and Howard |
| LEEKS | Bob and Howard, perhaps, brought up vegetables (5) |
| TREVOR | Noel Coward's Brief Encounter was beautifully filmed to Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto with Celia Johnson and ... Howard |
| AVIATORS | Airmen such as Charles Kingsford-Smith and Howard Hughes |
| LOVE | Nothing's better than faith and hope, according to Paul (and Enigmatist and Shed) (4) |
| TWINCITY | Characteristic shared by Minneapolis and St Paul, and Dallas and Fort Worth? (4,4) |
| POPES | John, Paul, and John Paul |
| STOOKEY | Paul of Peter, Paul and Mary |
