| ALMODOVAR | Pedro _, Spanish director whose films include All About My Mother and Pain and Glory (9) |
| PEDROALMODOVAR | Spanish director whose films include All About My Mother and Volver (5,9) |
| JASONROBARDS | American actor whose films include All the President's Men, Julia and Parenthood |
| LLAMA | It's all about my mother and that beastly Peruvian (5) |
| CORTISONE | Which steroid hormone is injected into swollen joints to reduce inflammation and pain? (9) |
| IBUPROFEN | This anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving drug is on the WHO's list of essentials - it's better known by the trade names Nurofen and Advil |
| MOUSTACHE | Walrus, for example, must embrace love and pain (9) |
| BARCELONASPAIN | Shooting locale for much of Pedro Almodovar's "All About My Mother" (1999) |
| ECOSPHERE | Closed system that includes all life on Earth |
| RAISEHELL | Bring trouble up, and pain (5,4) |
| PEDRO | "All About My Mother" director AlmodAA³var |
| DRYDEN | John -; poet and dramatist whose works include All for Love and Absalom and Achitophel (6) |
| DEREKNIMMO | English character actor whose TV series include All Gas and Gaiters and Oh, Brother! (5,5) |
| ARTHURMILLER | Playwright whose works include All My Sons, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible |
| BANDERAS | Antonio ___ Pain and Glory actor who voices the titular character in the film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish |
| SANCHEZ | Pedro_, Spanish Prime Minister (7) |
| MERRYMAKING | Be wrong to interrupt my mother and family having grand celebration (11) |
| MALADY | My mother and some other woman appear to be sick of it |
| NIELS | French Canadian actor, star of Xavier Dolan's I Killed My Mother and Heartbeats, - Schneider (5) |
| MITCHELL | Adrian ___, poet whose volumes include All Shook Up and Heart on the Left (8) |