| MALICK | Terrence ___, Best Director Oscar nominee for The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life (6) |
| NOLTE | Nick ---, Hollywood veteran who starred in The Thin Red Line and Affliction |
| PARAMO | High plateau in the Andes between the tree line and the permanent snow line (6) |
| TUNDRA | What is the vast treeless zone between the timber line and the northern ice cap? (6) |
| WHITE | Patrick -; Nobel Prize-winning author of novels including The Eye of the Storm, A Fringe of Leaves, Happy Valley and The Tree of Man (5) |
| TERRENCE | Days Of Heaven, Badlands and The Tree Of Life director Malick (8) |
| JAMES | Author of the novels From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line (5,5) |
| JONES | Author of the novels From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line (5,5) |
| COCONUT | National tree of The Maldives, also called the tree of life because of its usefulness (7) |
| KNOWLEDGE | "...and the tree of ___ of good and evil" (Gen 2:9) |
| ARTCINEMA | Genre for "La Dolce Vita" and "The Thin Red Line" |
| TERRENCEMALICK | 'The Thin Red Line' director |
| SEANPENN | Dead Man Walking and The Thin Red Line actor (4,4) |
| NICK | Cape Fear and The Thin Red Line actor, ___ Nolte |
| NORTHDAKOTA | The borders of this US state are three straight lines and the Bois de Sioux and Red rivers |
| ASH | Name for the Old English symbol ae that was adopted by George William Russell as a pen name; or, the "tree of life" Fraxinus bearing bunches of keys (3) |
| PENN | "The Thin Red Line" star Sean |
| RECON | Mission in "The Thin Red Line" |
| KECK | Sergeant in "The Thin Red Line" |
| JOHNASHBERY | Writer of the lines "And the poem / Has set me softly down beside you. The poem is you." |
