| TALLADEGA | Will Ferrell NASCAR comedy, ___ Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (9) |
| TWELFTH | Shakespeare comedy, _________ Night (7) |
| NASCAR | Org. featured in "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" |
| BOBBY | Will Ferrell comedy, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky ... (5) |
| NIGHTS | Talladega ___: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, 2006 Will Ferrell film (6) |
| MIDSUMMER | A ____ Night's Dream, play by Shakespeare that includes characters Puck and Bottom (9) |
| JENNIFERGARNER | Co-star of Ricky Gervais in the romantic comedy film The Invention of Lying |
| SUNSET | Associated with the Rayleighscattered colours of the "red sky at night", the daily fading below the horizon of Earth's nearest star (6) |
| SEDUCER | A present-day adaptation of the Fyodor Dostoevsky short story White Nights, The - (7) |
| CRACKINGUP | At the amateur comedy night, the omelet chef had the audience ___ |
| GERVAIS | Surname of Ricky, creator of The Office (7) |
| TESSIE | Music hall star Ms. O'Shea who shared the billing the famous night The Beatles first ap- peared on "The ed Sullivan Show" in 1964 |
| ARABIAN | The ___ Nights, collection of ancient tales told by the sultana Scheherazade (7) |
| HEN | The Queen Vic in Walford has been the site of many pre-wedding ___ nights (3) |
| STEPHEN | Comedy writing partner of Ricky Gervais, _ Merchant (7) |
| HATTON | Surname of Ricky, the former boxer who took part in Dancing On Ice in 2024 (6) |
| BRENT | Surname of Ricky Gervais' character in The Office (5) |
| ROUNDTABLE | Heard that some nights the inner circle met here (5,5) |
| OUTIN | "The Night the Lights Went ___ Georgia": 2 wds. |
| DAY | "And it must follow, as the night the ..." (Hamlet) |
