| PEDRO | Spanish director of films including the Oscar-winning All About My Mother (1999) and Talk To Her (2002) (5,9) |
| ALMODOVAR | Spanish director of films including the Oscar-winning All About My Mother (1999) and Talk To Her (2002) (5,9) |
| BARCELONASPAIN | Shooting locale for much of Pedro Almodovar's "All About My Mother" (1999) |
| ALFONSO | Mexican director of films including the Oscar-winning Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018) (7) |
| CUARON | Mexican director of films including the Oscar-winning Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018) (6) |
| CRY | Without her, "20 Across" does seem unhappy |
| PEDROALMODOVAR | Spanish director whose films include All About My Mother and Volver (5,9) |
| CLAIR | Director of films including The Italian Straw Hat and the 1945 adaptation of And Then There Were None (5) |
| LLAMA | It's all about my mother and that beastly Peruvian (5) |
| AZORIN | Spanish actor known for All About My Mother, Eloy - (6) |
| KORDA | Alexander ___, Hungarian-born producer of films including The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) and The Third Man (1949), the former of which he also directed (5) |
| GREENAWAY | Peter ___, British director of films including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife And Her Lover (1989) (9) |
| LUIS | Avant-garde Spanish director Oscar-nominated for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1973) and That Obscure Object of Desire (1978) (4,6) |
| BUNUEL | Avant-garde Spanish director Oscar-nominated for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1973) and That Obscure Object of Desire (1978) (4,6) |
| MIKE | English director of films including the Palme d'Or- and BAFTA-winning Secrets & Lies (1996) |
| LEIGH | English director of films including the Palme d'Or- and BAFTA-winning Secrets & Lies (1996) |
| HERBERTROSS | American director of films including The Sunshine Boys, The Goodbye Girl Footloose and Steel Magnolias (7,4) |
| SAMRAIMI | US director of films including the horrors The Evil Dead (1981) and Send Help (2026) (3,5) |
| ORATE | Ring right after, at the end of the game, and talk to (5) |
| MIKENICHOLS | Director of films including The Odd Couple. The Graduate and Silkwood (4.7) |
