| GRAZIANO | Rocky, boxer whose story is told in Somebody Up There Likes Me (8) |
| 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" |
| NEHEMIAH | Jewish leader whose story is told in the Old Testament after the book of Ezra (8) |
| OFLAGUNA | "I know she likes me; I know she likes me; Because she said so; She is my Lily ...; She is my lily a |
| VONTRAPP | Family whose story is told in The Sound of Music (3,5) |
| MARCIANO | Rocky - - -, boxer |
| LAMOTTA | Jake, boxer whose story is told in Raging Bull (7) |
| TELEPORT | Go from here to there ... like *that* |
| NAOMI | Who is the mother-in-law of Ruth, whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament? (5) |
| BROADWAYDANNYROSE | 1984 Woody Allen film whose story is told in flashback by a group of comedians in New York's Carnegie Deli (8,5,4) |
| KRISHNA | In Hinduism, the most celebrated of the deities whose story is told in the Mahabharata (7) |
| FOSSEY | Dian, anthropologist whose story is told in the Michael Apted film Gorillas in the Mist (6) |
| LIKES | Somebody Up There ___ Me |
| NORTHERNER | Error then can be pounded by the direction of somebody up there (10) |
| COURSER | There's a rider to it: there's nothing in somebody who swears (7) |
| VIOLETTESZABO | Second World War secret agent whose story is told in RJ Minney's book Carve Her Name With Pride (8,5) |
| HARLODABRAHAMS | First English winner of the Olympic 100 metres (1924), whose story is told in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire (6,8) |
| COHAN | George M, US actor whose story is told in the film Yankee Doodle Dandy (5) |
