| TIMOTHEE | With 19-Across: Oscar nominee who will play 1-Across in a remake to be released in December; the movie's trailer dropped yesterday |
| RELIEDON | Trusted De Niro remake to take on the Spanish (6,2) |
| AVI | .MOV alternative |
| ANGELA | With 14-Across: 1994 and 2023 Academy Award nominee who will receive an honorary Oscar next year, as announced earlier this week |
| FRED | With 17-Across: "Portlandia" actor who will play 1-Across on "Wednesday," as announced earlier this week |
| EVERMORE | The ninth studio album by Taylor Swift, released in December 2020, less than five months after Folklore (8) |
| RECEDES | In December, the seer goes back (7) |
| ANGELINA | Jolie who will play 1-Across |
| UTSTOWER | The tallest building on 1 across, in a uni campus (1,1,1,5) |
| PAINTERS | Those who put on their coats to work with most of 1 across in a number of hospitals (8) |
| IDI | With 19-Across, Oscar-winning Forest Whitaker role |
| DANIEL | With 21-Down: actor who plays 1-Across |
| GETBACK | 1969 single that was the first Beatles song to be released in stereo in the United States |
| RETURNOFTHEJEDI | 1983 film by George Lucas, the third to be released in the Star Wars franchise, but chronologically the sixth (6,2,3,4) |
| MAUI | Dwayne Johnson's role in "Moana"; he tweeted yesterday that a sequel is officially in the works and will be released in November (its trailer is out today) |
| ROBERTREDFORD | The Sting Oscar nominee who played Martin Bishop in the 1992 heist movie Sneakers: 2 wds. |
| PEGGYCASS | "Auntie Mame" Oscar nominee who was a regular "To Tell the Truth" panelist: 2 wds |
| PALOMAFAITH | Singer whose album The Glorification Of Sadness is to be released in 2024 (6,5) |
| FOLKLORE | First of two albums by U.S. singer/songwriter Taylor Swift to be released in 2020 (8) |
| MARYMCDONNELL | Dances With Wolves Oscar nominee who played Liz Ogilvy in Sneakers: 2 wds. |
