| GRAZIANO | Rocky ?, boxer whose story is told in 1956 biopic Somebody Up There Likes Me (8) |
| BOWE | Riddick ?, boxer who became WBA, WBC and IBF Heavyweight champion in 1992 (4) |
| BUGNER | Joe ?, boxer who took the British, European, and Commonwealth Heavyweight titles from Henry Cooper in 1971 |
| ROCKY | Boxer portrayed by Paul Newman in 1956 biopic Somebody Up There Likes Me (5,8) |
| SAL | "Somebody Up There Likes Me" actor Mineo |
| ANGELI | Actress Pier of "Somebody Up There Likes Me" |
| MARCIANO | Rocky - - -, boxer |
| TELEPORT | Go from here to there ... like *that* |
| LAMOTTA | Jake, boxer whose story is told in Raging Bull (7) |
| LIKES | "Somebody Up There ___ Me"; 1956 Paul Newman film |
| NORTHERNER | Error then can be pounded by the direction of somebody up there (10) |
| LUSTFORLIFE | 1956 biopic starring Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh (4,3,4) |
| BALBOA | Rocky -, boxer played by Sylvester Stallone (6) |
| MIME | Pretend there's a door there like Marcel Marceau |
| CUTTINGIT | Allowing very little time to get there, like working on a diamond? (7,2,4) |
| FINE | Allowing very little time to get there, like working on a diamond? (7,2,4) |
| NOR | Neither here ___ there (like a duffer's lost ball?) |
| ASTONE | Audioslave will wait for us there like this |
| BUMP | Just sitting there like a ___ on a log |
| FLITS | Goes here and there like a butterfly |
