| NICOLE | With 34-Across, actress who starred in two miniseries based on "Nine Perfect Strangers" and 47-Across |
| LIANEMORIARTY | Author of the novels "Nine Perfect Strangers" and 47-Across: 2 wds. |
| SMALL | New World War II miniseries with Liev Schreiber, A _ Light (5) |
| ASHER | Nine Perfect Strangers and Love My Way actor, ----- Keddie (5) |
| CREATIONIST | Intricate, so designed, one might think, based on 9? (11) |
| LOUD | Extremely _ & Incredibly Close, novel based on 9/11 (4) |
| JUSTINE | With 34-Across, actress who played Mallory Keaton on "Family Ties" |
| KIRSTEN | With 34-Across, actress who plays a photojournalist in "Civil War" |
| STEEL | Author of 179 books including A Perfect Stranger and Friends Forever ; one of the bestselling writers of all time (5) |
| JENNIFER | With 35-Across actress who starred in both the Hunger Games and X-Men movie franchises |
| GRACE | With 35-Across actress who starred with Cary Grant in Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief |
| TARA | With 65-Across, actress who starred in all six "Sharknado" films |
| POOH | Bear who starred in two Disney animated features in 1977 and 2011 |
| SHEEN | Often-controversial Hollywood star who starred in Two And A Half Men, Charlie _ (5) |
| SOPHIA | ___ Loren, Italian actress who starred in Two Women (6) |
| HEDREN | Actress who starred in two Hitchcock films |
| EVANS | Luke ---, Lars Lee in US TV series Nine Perfect Strangers who released 2022 album A Song For You (5) |
| DONALDSINDEN | Dennis old and dissolute, starred in Two's Company and Never the Twain (6,6) |
| ITSATRAP | Warning to the answers to the three starred clues regarding the word hidden in 17-, 34- and 43-Acros |
| LUCY | ____ Liu, actress who has starred in two Charlie's Angels films (4) |
