| MEYER | Russ ___, cult American film director whose successful low-budget sexploitation films include Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! |
| BADABING | Strip club in cult American gangster series The Sopranos (4,4) |
| HELICOPTER | Invention whose successful model was made by Igor Sikorsky that was inspired by the sci-fi novel Clipper of the Clouds by Jules Verne |
| TORERUSS | Gave a tough choice to sexploitation director Meyer? |
| BLUEMOVIE | Volume One: "Be Prepared for Sexploitation" (4,5) |
| ASHBY | Hal ___, American film director whose films include Harold and Maude, Shampoo, Coming Home and Being There |
| WALTERLANG | American film director whose films include The King and I and State Fair (6,4) |
| WYLER | William, German-born American film director whose works include 1959's Ben-Hur (5) |
| ALDRICH | Robert ___, American film director whose works include What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and The Dirt |
| KUBRICK | Stanley ---, Academy Award-winning American film director whose works include 2001: A Space Odyssey (7) |
| ALTMAN | Robert ___, American film director whose works include Nashville and Short Cuts |
| HOWARDHAWKS | American film director whose works include 1946's The Big Sleep (6,5) |
| HUSTON | American film director whose works include The African Queen and The Maltese Falcon (6) |
| ORSONWELLES | 20th Century American film director, actor and screenwriter, whose films include Citizen Kane (5,6) |
| ERNSTLUBITSCH | German-born American film director, producer, writer and actor whose films include Ninotchka and Heaven Can Wait |
| ALEXANDERPAYNE | American film director, screenwriter and producer whose films include About Schmidt, Sideways and The Holdovers (9,5) |
| EDWARDS | Blake ---, Oscar-winning American film director, screenwriter and producer whose movies include Breakfast At Tiffany's (7) |
| TAP | This is Spinal ___, cult film with the amp turned up to 11 (3) |
| ABBOT | Russ ___, star of Russ ___ Show (5) |
| EVANS | Angler Russ _ of 'Fishing Tail Films' (*naves) (5) |
