| PEGG | Simon -, actor I who played the title role in 2014 comedy-dra ma film Hector and the Search for Happiness (4) |
| ABOUT | 2002 comedy-dra ma film starrin Jack Nicho son, Kathy Bates and Hope Davis (5,7) |
| RRATING | TV-MA's film equivalent |
| IAN | Cubs fielder Happ |
| SIMON | Star of 2014 comedy-drama film Hector and the Search for Happiness (5,4) |
| HILLIARD | Limner and goldsmith at the court of Elizabeth I and later James I who painted the Phoenix and the Pelican portraits and the Young Man Among Roses miniature (8) |
| CALLOW | Simon -, actor who played the title role in 1980s Channel 4 sitcom Chance in a Million |
| FANNING | Dakota ___, US actress who played the title role in 2014 film drama Effie Gray (7) |
| PENA | Michael ___, actor who played the title role in 2014 biopic Cesar Chavez (4) |
| ORLEANS | Duc d' -; title upon the death of his uncle Gaston of Philippe I who was the younger brother of the Sun King and bought Chateau de Saint- Cloud for 240,000 livres in 1658(7) |
| JAY | Ricky ?, author, actor and sleight-of-hand expert whose roles include Kurt Longjohn in 1997 film dra |
| DAY | Simon -, actor and comedian who co-wrote and starred in 2003 BBC TV sitcom Grass (3) |
| GILBERT | Physician to Elizabeth I and later James I who published his findings on terrestrial magnetism in the six-volume treatise De Magnete (7) |
| HARVEY | Physician to James I and later Charles I who was the first to correctly describe the blood's circulation (6) |
| JOHNPYM | English statesman and opponent of Charles I who helped draft and first proposed the Grand Remonstran |
| EDDY | - the Fair; modernisation of the name of the eldest son of Edmund I who was approximately 15 years o |
| PYM | John -, English statesman and opponent of Charles I who helped draft and first proposed the Grand Remonstrance (3) |
| OATES | Simon -, actor who played Dr John Ridge in 1970s BBC TV drama series Doomwatch |
| WILLIAMS | Simon -, actor who played James Bellamy in 1970s ITV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs |
| NICHOLAS | ___ I, who has been called "the emperor who froze Russia for 30 years" (8) |