| TOMATOES | Rotten ___ (rating site that had "Paddington 2" as its top film for a breathless month in 2021) |
| NEOPETS | Virtual-animal site that had twenty-five million users in 2005 |
| HUSHHUSH | Repeat not another word as it's top secret (4-4) |
| BINARY | Of or pertaining to a nimber system which has 2 as its base (6) |
| HUGHGRANT | British actor who impressed with a star turn as a villain in Paddington 2, and is now back on the small screen in The Undoing, opposite Nicole Kidman (4,5) |
| JULIE | "Modern Family" star who helped rescue an unconscious hiker who had hit her head on a rock in a Utah national park on Aug. 2; as she came to, the hiker recognized her voice from the show |
| ELECTRICIAN | Test subject #1 perceives 1 as brown, 2 as red, 8 as gray; maybe he works as an ... |
| KANE | "Citizen ___" (movie that has battled with "Paddington 2" for the No. 1-rated spot on Rotten Tomatoes) |
| CHICKFLICK | 1990s phrase for a film for a female? (5,5) |
| NYCSUBWAY | Test subject #4 perceives A and C as blue, B and D as orange, 1 and 2 as red; maybe she rides the .. |
| WYCLIFFE | This TV drama set in Cornwall was produced by a top film-maker and his wife Elsie -- we hear it took a year to put it together (8) |
| BUCHANAN | Phoenix, failed actor played by Hugh Grant in 2017 comedy film Paddington 2 (8) |
| CRUMB | Charlie meets drunk in bar before film for a small bite (5) |
| TAKES | Film for a film editor |
| SNEAKPREVIEW | Early screening of a film for a privileged few (5,7) |
| PROP | Take 2, as in 1 or 3 in rugby. (4) |
| ROW | Rotten _, bridleway running along the south side of Hyde Park in London, created by William III In 1690 (3) |
| ALKYNE | Any of a series of open-chain hydrocarbons C(n)H(2n-2) (as acetylene) having one triple bond |
| APHRABEHN | English dramatist thought to have been employed by Charles II as a spy in Antwerp |
| PRIUS | Toyota model whose plural ends in "ii," as chosen by a 2011 public vote |
