| MACGUFFIN | The Maltese falcon, for one |
| PREYER | Falcon,for one |
| PEREGRINE | Falcon for each one in revamped green (9) |
| PREY | Bird of ___ (eagle or falcon, for example) |
| JET | Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon, for example |
| RAPTOR | falcon, for example |
| ATL | Home for Hawks and Falcons, for short |
| PROP | The Maltese Falcon in "The Maltese Falcon," e.g. |
| LORRE | Austro-Hungarian actor noted for roles in films such as M, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca and The Raven (5) |
| SAMSPADE | Created by Dashiell Hammett in 1930 and played by Humphrey Bogart in the 1941 film, who was the sleuth in The Maltese Falcon? (3,5) |
| FATMAN | 'The Maltese Falcon' villain, with 'the' |
| NOIR | Genre for "The Maltese Falcon" |
| HAMMETT | Dashiell, author of the novel The Maltese Falcon (7) |
| GUTMAN | Casper, character in the film The Maltese Falcon (6) |
| SPADE | Dashiell Hammett's detective, Sam ..., comments on the Maltese Falcon that it's the "stuff that dre |
| SAM | Central character in the Raymond Chandler novel The Maltese Falcon (3,5) |
| HUSTON | Director and screenwriter of The Maltese Falcon whose grandson starred in the 2016 film Ben-Hur (6) |
| ASTOR | What surname links Nancy, the first woman to sit in Parliament, and Mary, The Maltese Falcon actress? (5) |
| DASHIELL | _ Hammett, US author of the detective novel The Maltese Falcon (1930) |
| DASHIELLHAMMETT | Author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man (8,7) |
