| CRACKERS | Suggesting lama in Marx Brothers film |
| ANIMAL | Suggesting lama in Marx Brothers film |
| FARCE | Element in Marx Brothers films |
| DUMONT | Margaret ___, American comic actress, born Daisy Baker, noted for her performances in Marx Brothers films |
| HARP | Instrument in Marx Brothers movies |
| HARPO | He came between Groucho and Chico in Marx Brothers (5) |
| DOWAGERS | Margaret Dumont in Marx Bros. movies, et. al. |
| TIBET | Brad Pitt plays a mountain climber who makes friends with the Dalai Lama in the drama Seven Years in ___ |
| NANCYPELOSI | This U.S. politician was also denied permission to visit Tibet in 2024; instead, she met the Dalai Lama in India |
| ONEL | Like "lama" in a classic Ogden Nash poem |
| LHASA | Traditional seat of the Dalai Lama in Tibet |
| OCEAN | "___ of wisdom" ("Dalai Lama," in translation) |
| FERNANDO | Lamas, in Hollywood |
| LHASAAPSOS | They're regarded as reincarnated lamas in Tibetan tradition |
| POTALA | ___ Palace, ex-winter residence of the Dalai Lamas in Tibet (6) |
| ATTHECIRCUS | 1939 Marx Brothers film in which Groucho Marx plays Attorney J Cheever Loophole |
| ANIMALCRACKERS | 1930 Marx Brothers film in which Groucho Marx plays explorer Captain Spaulding |
| DUCKSOUP | *Marx Brothers film set in Freedonia |
| ADAYATTHERACES | Marx Brothers film in which they act as a dare,going crazy (1,3,2,3,5) |
| GOWEST | 1940 Marx Brothers film in which Groucho plays S. Quentin Quale (2,4) |
