| TONYCURTIS | US actor who played a saxophone in 1959 film 'Some Like it Hot' (4,6) |
| AXE | Word for a hatchet since Anglo-Saxon times; or, from the 1950s, a slang term for an electric guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz (3) |
| WILDER | Billy, director noted for his 1959 film Some Like It Hot (6) |
| SUGAR | 1972 musical, with music by Jule Styne, based on the 1959 film Some Like It Hot |
| HOT | 1959 film, "Some Like It -" |
| CARMICHAEL | Ian ?, actor who played Stanley Windrush in 1959 film comedy I'm All Right Jack |
| COLOMBO | Mobster played by George Raft in the classic 1959 Billy Wilder film Some Like It Hot (5,7) |
| SPATS | Mobster played by George Raft in the classic 1959 Billy Wilder film Some Like It Hot (5,7) |
| MONROE | Who plays Sugar Kane, a singer and ukulele player in the film Some Like It Hot? (7,6) |
| MARILYN | Who plays Sugar Kane, a singer and ukulele player in the film Some Like It Hot? (7,6) |
| JUDDNELSON | Actor who played a high school delinquent in The Breakfast Club and a yuppie politician in St. Elmo's Fire: 2 wds. |
| ZEROMOSTEL | Actor who played a failed Broadway producer in the 1968 film The Producers (4,6) |
| JOHNNYDEPP | Then-obscure actor who played a victim in "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984) |
| SINGLEREED | Like a saxophone or clarinet |
| VINGRHAMES | Then-obscure actor who played a victim in "The People Under the Stairs" (1991) |
| OWENWILSON | Then-obscure actor who played a victim in "Anaconda" (1997) |
| GEORGERAFT | Actor who played a coin-flipping killer in the 1932 movie "Scarface" |
| KEVINBACON | Then-obscure actor who played a victim in "Friday the 13th" (1980) |
| OLIVERREED | British actor who played a slave master in dying before filming was completed (6,4) |
| REED | Grass-like plant used in thatching; part of the mouthpiece of a clarinet or a saxophone; or, the actor who starred as Bill Sikes in the film Oliver! (4) |
