| SEANNWALSH | Stand-up comedian and actor who played Grizzo in ITV series Bad Move |
| SEANN | Stand-up comedian and actor who played Grizzo in ITV series Bad Move |
| WALSH | Stand-up comedian and actor who played Grizzo in ITV series Bad Move (5,5) |
| SEANHUGHES | Stand-up comedian and actor, author of novels It's What He Would've Wanted and The Detainees, who died in 2017 (4,6) |
| BOBNEWHART | American stand-up comedian and actor whose best-known sketches include The Driving Instructor |
| MALEVOLENT | Bad move may entail losing one and taking on apprentice (10) |
| ADDISABABA | Capital in Asia repeated bad move |
| DEE | Jack ?, comedian and actor who starred in television series Lead Balloon and Bad Move |
| ROCK | Chris, U.S. stand-up comedian and actor who hosted the Oscars in 2005 and 2016 (4) |
| CHRISROCK | Stand-up comedian and actor who hosted the Academy Awards in 2005 and 2016 |
| EYO | Alicya ?, actress who played Denny Blood in ITV drama series Bad Girls |
| EDDIEIZZARD | English stand-up comedian and actor who appeared in the movies Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen and Valkyrie (5,6) |
| JACKDEE | Stand-up comedian and star of the sitcom Bad Move (4,3) |
| LENNY | Stand-up comedian and actor who co-founded the Comic Relief charity, ----- Henry (5) |
| OHANLON | Ardal -, Irish stand-up comedian and actor who authored novel The Talk of the Town (7) |
| MULANEY | John ___ American stand-up comedian and actor who was a writer for Saturday Night Live |
| SEINFELD | Jerry ******** , stand-up comedian and actor noted for playing himself in a sitcom (8) |
| DYE | Surname ofJack. comedian who wrote sitcoms Lead Balloon and Bad Move(3) |
| NOBLE | Ross ?, stand-up comedian and actor; Perrier Comedy Award nominee at the 1999 Edinburgh Festival Fringe |
| JACKIEMASON | Late US stand-up comedian and actor born Yacov Moshe Maza (6,5) |
