| CHRISTOPHERWALKEN | Prolific actor whose sole Oscar was for his role as Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter |
| STAN | One of the deer hunters in "The Deer Hunter" |
| JOHNSAVAGE | "Hair" actor who played Corporal Steven Pushkov in "The Deer Hunter": 2 wds. |
| AUDREYHEPBURN | Actress who won the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (the Oscar was for "Roman Holiday"): 2 wds. |
| RITAMORENO | Actress who won the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (the Oscar was for "West Side Story"): 2 wds. |
| VET | De Niro in The Deer Hunter, for instance. |
| ROULETTE | Lethal game played to shocking effect by Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter, Russian ... |
| INGRID | ___ Bergman, actress whose first Oscar was for the 1944 film Gaslight (6) |
| RUSSIANROULETTE | "Game" featured in "The Deer Hunter" |
| PHILHARTMAN | He should have starred in "The Deer Hunter" |
| ALI | Actor Mahershala whose first Oscar was for Moonlight |
| ZANUCK | Film producer Darryl F ____'s last best picture Oscar was for All About Eve in 1951 |
| TREJO | This prolific actor was once an inmate in San Quentin prison, Danny - (5) |
| BOONE | Pat ___, US singer-actor who starred as Nick Conover in 1957 comedy-drama film April Love (5) |
| PATBOONE | US singer-actor who starred as Nick Conover in 1957 comedy-drama film April Love (3,5) |
| ESSEX | David ?, singer-actor who starred as Nick Freeman in 1980 film drama Silver Dream Racer |
| OCEAN | Billy, whose sole UK No 1 was When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going (5) |
| ACINONYX | Animal genus in the cat family (Felidae) whose sole extant member is the cheetah (8) |
| EDHARRIS | Prolific actor and Westworld's The Man in Black (2,6) |
| OLIVIER | Surname of the prolific actor, Laurence -, and title of prestigious theatre awards (7) |