| TERANTINO | Quentin _, American actor, writer and film director whose movies include 1992's Reservoir Dogs (9) |
| TARANTINO | Quentin _, American screenwriter and cinematographer whose films are noted for their stylised violence (9) |
| QUENTIN | And 23 American actor, writer and film director whose movies include Reservoir Dogs (7,9) |
| TIA | - Carrere, actor whose films include 1992's Wayne's World (3) |
| USTINOV | Surname of the knighted actor, writer and film director, who published the autobiography Dear Me (7) |
| ETHAN | ___ Hawke - American actor, writer, and director |
| DANIELLE | American romance novelist whose works include 1992's Jewels, _ Steel (8) |
| THOM | _ Gunn, poet whose collections include 1992's The Man With Night Sweats (4) |
| HITCHCOCK | Alfred ---, film director whose movies include Rear Window and Psycho (9) |
| MIKELEIGH | Film and theatre writer and director whose movies include Vera Drake (2004) |
| DAVIDLEAN | 20th-century film director whose movies include Brief Encounter and Doctor Zhivago (5,4) |
| BROOKS | Mel ---, US comedy writer, actor and film director whose movies include The Producers and Blazing Saddles (6) |
| PENETRATE | Go into writer and film with value (9) |
| LEIGH | Mike ---, film and theatre writer and director whose movies include Secrets & Lies and Vera Drake (5) |
| ZHANGYIMOU | Chinese film director whose movies include Hero and House of Flying Daggers: 2 wds. |
| AKIRAKUROSAWA | Japanese film director whose movies include Seven Samurai and Rashomon: 2 wds. |
| BONGJOONHO | South Korean film director whose movies include Okja and Parasite: 2 wds. hyph. |
| LEAN | David ---, 20th-Century film director whose movies include Brief Encounter and Doctor Zhivago (4) |
| BRENDAN | Irish actor and film director whose films include In Bruges, The Guard and The Banshees of Inisherin (7,7) |
| GLEESON | Irish actor and film director whose films include In Bruges, The Guard and The Banshees of Inisherin (7,7) |
