| BEWILDERMENT | Uncertainty for US film maker and team in wager (12) |
| HOLLYWOOD | First Harold Lloyd production accepts court for US film industry (9) |
| PREMIERCRU | Prime Minister and team in talks get fine wine |
| NBAPAINT | Social media account famous for its illustrations of players and teams in the style of a certain Microsoft drawing program |
| BALLETDANCER | Everyone put in wager on reindeer, one with padded feet? (6,6) |
| BRADLEY | Forename of an actor, film-maker and helmer who starred in, directed and co-produced movies including A Star Is Born and Maestro (7) |
| FLAHERTY | Robert J --, 1884-1951, US pioneer, documentary film-maker and explorer (8) |
| EMERALD | Film maker and director who played Camilla in The Crown (7,7) |
| FENNELL | Film maker and director who played Camilla in The Crown (7,7) |
| CAITLINMORAN | Journalist whose career started with Melody Maker, and whose Twitter feed was included in a 2014 A-level English syllabus |
| LOUISTHEROUX | British documentary maker and presenter (5,7) |
| COUSTEAU | Oceanographer, film-maker and undersea explorer who co-invented the aqualung and converted the minesweeper Calypso into a research vessel (8) |
| WYCLIFFE | This TV drama set in Cornwall was produced by a top film-maker and his wife Elsie -- we hear it took a year to put it together (8) |
| LOUIS | Documentary film-maker and presenter, ----- Theroux (5) |
| ORSON | --- Welles, former film maker and actor (5) |
| EISENSTEIN | Film-maker and scientist embracing opponents at table (10) |
| WOODS | Hong Kong film-maker and director with small golf clubs |
| EDMONIALEWIS | Old Arrow-Maker and his Daughter sculptor who is honored on a 2022 U.S. postage stamp (2 wds.) |
| PRISONER | Kept captive by endless uncertainty for individual in our voting system (8) |
| TARANTINO | Who in tarnation is this US film-maker? (9) |
