| MOVIEEXTRAS | Uncredited actors, and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| RON | Happy Days actor and A Beautiful Mind director, ... Howard |
| MAHARISHI | Teacher raised actor and a chancellor (9) |
| DEREKHOUGH | US dancer, choreographer, actor and a judge on the US series World of Dance (5,5) |
| EXTRA | Uncredited actor in a crowd scene |
| COMPANY | A unit of Girl Guides; a flock of wigeon; or, a group of touring actors and actresses (7) |
| ONSETS | Where to find the best actors and directors? |
| CAST | Actors, and what they want to be (4) |
| ACROBATS | A bishop among drunken actors and circus performers? |
| KEMP | Actors and Spandau Ballet members, Gary and Martin _ (4) |
| LIST | A-___ - group of most sought-after actors and celebs (4) |
| THERATPACK | Group of 1960s actors and entertainers that included Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis Jr. (3,3,4) |
| THEGOONS | Absurd and subversive group of actors and comedians who found fame together on the radio (3,5) |
| BEATON | Society photographer whose The Book of Beauty features portraits of actors and authors including Daisy Fellowes, Lady Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard and Virginia Woolf (6) |
| GARRICK | The _, London club founded in 1831 for 'actors and men of refinement', which voted in 2024 to admit women (7) |
| CASTIGATE | Rebuke one appearing between actors and audience (9) |
| STARSANDSTRIPES | Standard made by top actors and actresses with bands (5,3,7) |
| GUTTED | Thus actors and artists become as disappointed |
| THEATRE | Place of work for actors and surgeons |
| MUMMERSET | Word for the generic West Country accent used by actors and actresses (9) |
