| MCQUEEN | Steve, The Great Escape actor (7) |
| STEVEMCQUEEN | "The Great Escape" actor [or] "12 Years a Slave" director |
| STEVE | "The Great Escape" actor McQueen |
| FLIGHTSHAME | Escape actor in the southeast and criticise environmentally damaging behaviour |
| STURGES | John, director of the films The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven (7) |
| HOUDINI | The great escape artist (7) |
| STEFANI | The Great Escape singer, Gwen _ (7) |
| CLAVELL | King Rat author and screenwriter of the film classics, The Great Escape and To Sir With Love; James |
| POWCAMP | Setting of '63's "The Great Escape": 2 wds. |
| BRONSON | Charles of The Great Escape |
| CARLTON | Steve, the first pitcher with four Cy Youngs |
| JOHNSTURGES | Director of the films The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven (4,7) |
| JAMESCOBURN | US actor in The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven |
| DAVIDMCCALLUM | Scots actor who played the prisoner in charge of dispersing dirt from tunnels in 'The Great Escape' film (5,8) |
| BRICKHILL | Royal Australian Air Force pilot in the Second World War; author of volumes The Dam Busters and The Great Escape (4,9) |
| PAUL | Royal Australian Air Force pilot in the Second World War; author of volumes The Dam Busters and The Great Escape (4,9) |
| DICKANDHARRY | Code names for two of the tunnels dug by Allied prisoners in the 1963 film The Great Escape (4,3,5) |
| COOLERKING | Steve McQueen's nickname in "The Great Escape" |
| POWS | Steve Mcqueen, et al. in "The Great Escape" (1963) |
| TUNNEL | Escape route in "The Great Escape" |