| INAGROVE | Short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa used by Akira Kurosawa as the basis for the characters and plot of his movie Rashomon |
| TRANS | Like many of the characters and actors in "Pose" |
| ALLEGORY | Artwork in which the characters and events are symbols of something else (8) |
| CANTONESE | Dialect in which the number two is considered lucky because its character is homophonous for the characters for easy and bright |
| CURD | Coagulated substance formed from milk by the action of acid or rennet, used as the basis for cheese (4) |
| BEVERIDGE | William ---, British economist whose 1942 report served as the basis for the post World War II welfare state (9) |
| ROMA | Tomato cultivar commonly used for canning and as the basis for Italian sauces |
| OPINIONPOLLS | Assessments of public opinion by questioning a representative sample, especially as the basis for forecasting the results of voting (7,5) |
| HATFIELDHOUSE | Mansion used as the basis for Lara Croft's home in Tomb Raider films and video games |
| CASHEWNUT | Seed consumed as a snack, sometimes used as the basis for a korma sauce (6,3) |
| WMDS | These were cited as the basis for the Iraq War: Abbr. |
| NEALCASSADY | US writer who was the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the Jack Kerouac novel On the Road (4 |
| REGAN | Pilot episode of the 1975- 8 ITV police drama The Sweeney, named for the character played by John Thaw (5) |
| ROUX | Mixture of fat and flour, used as the basis for sauces (4) |
| TEXT | Short biblical passage used as the basis for a sermon (4) |
| SEVENSAMURAI | 1954 epic film co-written and directed by Akira Kurosawa |
| SAMURAI | 'The Seven --', 1954 film by Akira Kurosawa (7) |
| RAN | 1985 film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa |
| THOMASHARRIS | Suspense novelist whose book was the basis for the movie "The Silence of the Lambs": 2 wds. |
| CHANGANDENG | First names of the conjoined twin brothers whose condition and birthplace became the basis for the term "Siamese twins" |
