| MURDER | Thursday ___ Club, 1A's best-selling debut novel (6) |
| WARALL | Thursday "___ the Time" |
| MORISSETTE | Jagged Little Pill was the best-selling debut album for Canadian singer, Alanis ... |
| WHITNEYHOUSTON | Singer with the best-selling debut album by a solo artist |
| GUNSNROSES | Band whose "Appetite for Destruction" was the best-selling debut album of all time |
| ODIN | Thor : Thursday :: _ : Wednesday |
| NICOLE | ___ Kidman, 1A's co-star in Australia (6) |
| RACHEL | ___ Weisz, 1A's costar in The Fountain (6) |
| STEVEN | ___ Spielberg, film director who has bought the rights to 1A's book (6) |
| SAMUEL | ___ L Jackson, star who has worked on five of 1A's films including Django Unchained, Jackie Brown and 39A (6) |
| VANHALEN | Platinum-selling debut rock album of 1978 |
| ELLA | Deliciously -; containing a collection of plant-based recipes, the fastest-selling debut cookbook ever (4) |
| ELASTICA | Group whose 1995 first album became the fastest-selling debut album in UK history |
| SUSANBOYLE | I Dreamed a Dream, the UK's fastest selling debut album ever, was made by this Britain's Got Talent contestant |
| STONE | Content of some 1As? Small number, next to road |
| DISAPPEARANCE | Pen sad epic novel about 1A's 26, leading character suffering this fate? |
| SEE | Though needles have 1As, they can't do it |
| MICHELLE | ___ Pfieffer, 1A's co-star in Mother!, out later this year (8) |
| MATT | ___ Damon, 1A's co-star in sci-fi film The Martian (4) |
| MELISSA | ___ Mccarthy, 1A's costar in Bridesmaids and Ghostbusters (7) |