| NYONGO | See picture clue: 12 Years a Slave Oscar winner, Lupita -----'- (5'1) |
| LUPITANYONGO | "12 Years a Slave" Oscar winner: 2 wds. |
| YEARS | 12 ___ a Slave Oscar-winning 2013 film starring Lupita Nyong'o and Chiwetel Ejiofor |
| YEARSA | Biopic with Lupita Nyong'o, 12 ... Slave (5,1) |
| JUNGLE | The ___ Book Oscar-winning 2016 film where Lupita Nyong'o voiced Raksha |
| YALIES | Lupita Nyong'o and Meryl Streep, for two |
| LITTLE | ___ Monsters 2019 comedy film starring Lupita Nyong'o and Alexander England |
| ITENDSWITHUS | Colleen Hoover novel, and a hint for the answer to each asterisked clue * (12) |
| HALLUCINATED | Saw strange things in cryptic Thailand clue (12) |
| THATENDSWELL | Last three words of a Shakespeare title, and a hint for answers to asterisked clues (12) |
| REDHERRING | Misleading clue, 12, with hearts going astray |
| SLAVE | Oscar-winning biopic starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a ___ (5) |
| THREESTRIKES | What gets you out, or a hint for answers to asterisked clues (12) |
| TRIPLETHREAT | Actor/singer/dancer, e.g., or a hint to answers to asterisked clues (12) |
| SIXOFTHEBEST | Old-school punishment, and a hint for answers to asterisked clues (12) |
| ITSBEHINDYOU | Pantomime cry, and a hint for answers to asterisked clues (12) |
| CHANGEOFPACE | Something completely different, and a hint to the starts of answers to asterisked clues (12) |
| ECHOLOCATION | How bats navigate, and a hint at how to input answers to asterisked clues (12) |
| DEBUT | 12 Years a Slave, for Lupita Nyong'o |
| SHADESOFGREY | What there are fifty of in a book title, and appear in answers to asterisked clues (12) |
