| FILMSET | This might be Elm Street, if in production (4,3) |
| STREET | Could be Elm, or 42nd (6) |
| STIFFEN | Strengthen the street if it's over a bog (7) |
| MYSTIFY | Go into Jeremy St. if you want to baffle people (7) |
| KRUEGER | Freddy's surname in the 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street (7) |
| ENGLUND | Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street, Robert ------- (7) |
| DEFENESTRATION | End on a street if maltreated in this way? (14) |
| FREDDIE | Wes Craven's terrifying metal-taloned creation from the Nightmare On Elm Street films, ... Kruger |
| PROFITEER | Make money in back street, if orphan |
| STARES | Are to be seen in the streets, if one looks (6) |
| STARE | Are on the street, if you look (5) |
| FIREENGINE | This may speed through the streets, if I re-engineer part (4,6) |
| ROONEYMARA | US actress whose films include The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Carol, Lion, The Secret Scripture and A Nightmare on Elm Street are films in which this US actress starred (6,4) |
| TREESURGEON | He might take blade to Elm Street, without bounds he operates? (4,7) |
| FREDDYKRUEGER | Character played by Robert Englund in the A Nightmare on Elm Street films |
| DEPP | Future star debuting in "A Nightmare on Elm Street" |
| NIGHTMARE | Bad dream, like in a movie Elm Street |
| FREDDY | ___ Krueger, villain in the A Nightmare On Elm Street horror film franchise (6) |
| JOHNNYDEPP | Then-obscure actor who played a victim in "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984) |
| SAXON | John, actor whose film roles include Lieut. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street (5) |
