| POINTBREAK | Surfing term; or, a thriller film starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reaves (5,5) |
| GHOST | 1990 romantic fantasy thriller film starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore (5) |
| JAWS | Mandibles; grasping power; grips of vices or wrenches; a thriller film based on a human-eating shark; or, a henchman in Moonraker (4) |
| TRAP | A music genre, a hunting term or a golf obstacle |
| TENSE | Like a thriller film |
| SENTENCE | Prison term or a grammatical unit |
| WILLARD | CFL all star running back Reaves |
| KEANU | Reaves of "The Matrix" |
| CODEWORDS | Encrypted terms, or a hint to the first two letters of both parts of the starred answers? |
| ROBBER | From "reave, plunder", a person who commits burglary, housebreaking, pilferage, pillage, thievery or other act of deprivation by force (6) |
| THUS | Sting "Wilt Thou Unkind ___ Reave Me" |
| REFT | Past tense of reave |
| POINT | Kathryn Bigelow film starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves (5,5) |
| BREAK | Kathryn Bigelow film starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves (5,5) |
| FATHERHOOD | 1993 film starring Patrick Swayze and Halle Berry |
| THEWATCHER | 2000 crime film starring James Spader, Marisa Tomei and Keanu Reeves |
| RED | 1984 action film starring Patrick Swayze and C Thomas Howell (3,4) |
| STEELDAWN | 1987 film starring Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi (5,4) |
| ROADHOUSE | 1989 action film starring Patrick Swayze and Kelly Lynch |
| ROAD | 1989 action film starring Patrick Swayze and Kelly Lynch (4,5) |
