| DIGGS | Taye _, American film & theatre actor (5) |
| MATTHAU | Walter ____, US film and theatre actor, died 2000 (7) |
| DAY | TV and theatre actor, Darren _ (3) |
| LEIGH | Mike ---, film and theatre writer and director whose movies include Secrets & Lies and Vera Drake (5) |
| LOSEY | Joseph, U.S. film and theatre director noted for The Servant (5) |
| LLOYD | Harold _, American film actor and producer famous for his silent comedies (5) |
| ASHBY | Hal ___, American film director whose films include Harold and Maude, Shampoo, Coming Home and Being There |
| LANGE | Jessica ___, American film actress who won an Oscar for Tootsie (5) |
| REACT | Respond by taking part of theatre actor (5) |
| IRONS | Jeremy _, British theatre actor who appeared in The Flash (5) |
| DEMME | Jonathan ___, American film director best known for The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia |
| TAIWO | Taye ..... , Nigeria defender; QPR loanee from Milan in 2012 (5) |
| CONTI | Tom, Scottish actor and theatre director of Italian descent (5) |
| MIKELEIGH | Film and theatre writer and director whose movies include Vera Drake (2004) |
| DRAMA | An elaborate fuss or "to do" - from Shakespearean tragedy and theatre of justice scene to a friend's histrionic song and dance or performance in the style of Edmund Kean (5) |
| LETTS | Quentin _; journalist and theatre critic (5) |
| GREIG | David --, Scottish playwright and theatre director (5) |
| AGATE | James ---, English diarist and theatre critic between the two World Wars (5) |
| THROW | Cast and theatre leaders quarrel (5) |
| CHOPS | Cuts choir and theatre activities (5) |
