| SNIPES | Wesley ---, American actor who starred in the Blade series of films (6) |
| WESLEYSNIPES | American actor who starred in the Blade film trilogy |
| KRIS | Kristofferson of the "Blade" series |
| NOTHING | Word that follows Money For to give the title of a Jay Blades series which has been running since 2015 (7) |
| CARELL | American actor who starred in the 2015 film The Big Short (6) |
| SPADER | James, American actor who starred in the film Sex, Lies & Videotape (6) |
| MATURE | Victor ___, American actor who starred in the 1953 film The Robe |
| STEVEN | ___ Yuen, Korean-American actor who starred in AMC's The Walking Dead (6) |
| FERRER | Mel ___, American actor who starred opposite his then wife Audrey Hepburn in the 1956 film War And Peace (6) |
| PUDDLE | A pool of rainwater; a ripple on the water's surface left by the blade of an oar; or, a curtain's train of fabric, spilling onto the floor (6) |
| MIDRIB | The main vein of a leaf, running down the centre of the blade (6) |
| SPLICE | The part of a handle of a cricket bat that fits into the blade (6) |
| RUTTER | Father & son, the latter known as "The Blade", who have both won seven TTS each. (6) |
| DAGGER | One of The Blades backed most of the music coming from Jamaica with depth (6) |
| PADDLE | Barefoot walk in shallow water; a canoe oar; a whiff-what? bat; or, one of the blades of a water wheel (6) |
| SHEATH | A covering for the blade of a knife (6) |
| RUNNER | What is the blade of an ice skate? (6) |
| LANCET | Clean off top of the blade (6) |
| CUTTER | This is used to keep the blades close to the ground (5,6) |
| SWORDS | The Blades could have been discovered in Dublin (6) |
