| JEEPERSCREEPERS | Song in the 1938 film "Going Places" |
| NEARNESS | The ___ of You, song by Hoagy Carmichael and Ned Washington featured in the 1938 film Romance in the Dark |
| MORLEY | Robert -; actor who played Louis XVI in the 1938 film Marie Antoinette and the title role in the 1960 biopic Oscar Wilde (6) |
| HILLER | Actress who starred as Eliza Doolittle in the 1938 film Pygmalion and won an Oscar for her part in Separate Tables (6) |
| REMEMBER | Popular song by Irving Berlin performed by Alice Faye in the 1938 film Alexander's Ragtime Band |
| ERROL | Actor who starred in the 1938 film The Adventures Of Robin Hood, _ Flynn (5) |
| FAYWRAY | Actress who played heroine Ann Darrow in the 1938 film King Kong (3,4) |
| BOYS | Spencer Tracy won an Oscar for his role as Father Flanagan in the 1938 film, ... Town (4') |
| BOYSTOWN | The 1938 film for which Spencer Tracy won Best Actor Oscar (4,4) |
| CAPRA | Frank, director of the 1938 film You Can't Take It with You (5) |
| LURCH | Butler in the 1938-88 comic strip The Addams Family, created by US cartoonist Charles Addams (5) |
| BOYER | Charles who starred in the 1938 drama "Algiers" |
| ACTED | Emulated Lou Gehrig in the 1938 western, "Rawhide" |
| WITHYOU | Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore and James Mason starred in the 1938 Oscar winner, You Can't Take It . |
| HUTTON | Len, England cricketer who scored 364 against Australia in the 1938 Oval Test (6) |
| CUBA | Nation beaten 8-0 by Sweden in the 1938 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals (4) |
| ELMERFUDD | Merrie Melodies cartoon character first featured by name in the 1938 short A Feud There Was (5,4) |
| SEPTEMBERSONG | Kurt Weill number first heard in the 1938 Broadway musical Knickerbocker Holiday |
| MICHAELCAINE | British actor who starred in the 2017 heist film "Going in Style": 2 wds. |
| BINGCROSBY | Singer and actor who won the Best Actor Oscar for his role as Father Chuck O'Malley in the film Going My Way (4,6) |