| ROBINWRIGHT | WHICH KELLY FORGED A SUCCESSFUL FILM AND TV CAREER? (two words) |
| BETTYWHITE | "The Golden Girls" star with longest TV career: 2 wds. |
| SYKES | Wanda who won the 2025 Critics' Choice Association LGBTQ+ Cinema & Television Career Achievement Award |
| GOSFORDPARK | Film directed by Robert Altman in which Kelly Macdonald plays a maid to a countess (7,4) |
| WORLDIDOL | Singing competition show in which Kelly Clarkson represented the U.S. |
| RENOIR | A son of which Impressionist artist became a successful film director? (6) |
| PROFIT | A successful film company will make and show it (6) |
| ICET | Rapper with a successful film career |
| THEGREATGATSBY | Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, made into a successful film starring Carey Mulligan and Leonardo Dicaprio (3,5,6) |
| LOPEZ | "Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for." She began her TV career in 1990 as a Fly Girl on In Living Color, and she performed at the 2021 inauguration of U.S. Pres |
| SPACETRAVELLER | Journeyman who's launched TV career - a spell at sea |
| BRITANNIA | In a barn it forged a type of metal |
| DIRECTHIT | Plan and execute successful film shot... (6,3) |
| SMASHHIT | Informal term for a very successful film, show, song or performer (5,3) |
| NEILYOUNG | Two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, with Buffalo Springfield and for his solo career: 2 wds. |
| PAULMCCARTNEY | Two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, with the Beatles and for his solo career: 2 wds. |
| VANNA | White with a four-decade TV career |
| OVERREACT | Give an undue response with old TV career in ruins |
| DAWNFRENCH | In 1982, Five Go Mad in Dorset launched this comedian's TV career |
| TYRA | Supermodel Banks whose TV career started on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air |
