| CUEING | Signalling actor to speak |
| APART | Aside given to an actor to speak? |
| CUE | Signal for actor to speak (3) |
| CUEBALL | What helps actor to speak and dance - part of a colourful game |
| MARCEAU | Only actor to speak in Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie" |
| OLIVIER | Who was the first actor to be elevated to a life peerage, which allowed him to sit in the House of Lords? (Last name only.) |
| FESCUE | Iron's signal to actor to grass (6) |
| STUNTMAN | Actor's actor to trick mother with nationalist (5,3) |
| COX | Brian, Scottish actor/director who was the first British actor to teach atthe Moscow Art Theatre sch |
| CLAPHAM | (and 16) Santa induces quiet actor to order writer to carry the man in the street (7) |
| CASTIRON | Hard to find actor to play one of comedy duo (4-4) |
| CASTYOURHOOK | Angle to find an actor to play pirate captain? (4,4,4) |
| BREAKALEG | Encouragement to actor to pause on a stage (5,1,3) |
| MAHERSHALAALI | First black actor to win two Oscars in the same category and only the second to win two competitive Oscars: 2 wds. |
| WES | Actor Studi who will be the first Native American actor to receive an honorary Oscar |
| STAGEWHISPER | A furtive or secretive remark from one actor to another intended to be heard by the audience (5,7) |
| GEORGECSCOTT | The first actor to refuse a Best Actor Oscar |
| DANIELDAYLEWIS | The first and only actor to win three Academy Awards for Best Actor |
| NICKNOLTE | Actor who lost the Oscar for Best Actor to Anthony Hopkins in 1992 |
| SIDNEY | The first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, _ Poitier (6) |
