| KATHRYN | With 38-Across, the only woman to win the Best Director Oscar (for "The Hurt Locker") |
| PIEMADEITTHROUGH | With 102 Across, the only good news after the picnickers got drenched? (with apologies to Barry Mani |
| BUDDY | With 38-Across The Beverly Hillbillies actor who played Holly's former husband in Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| WILL | With 17-, 18-, 1-, 17-, 62-, and 38-Across, the chorus to 38-Across |
| SYSTEM | See 38 Across. The complex of buses, trains, light rail, etc, in a city, considered as a whole (3,7,6) |
| YENTL | 1983 movie for which Barbra Streisand became the only woman to win a Golden Globe for Best Director |
| KATHRYNBIGELOW | First woman to win a best director Oscar, for the 2009 war film The Hurt Locker |
| ALFONSOCUARON | First Mexican to win the Best Director Oscar (for "Gravity"): 2 wds. |
| MARIECURIE | The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only woman to have won it twice (for Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911) (5,5) |
| CLINTEASTWOOD | Oldest person to win the Best Director Oscar, at 74 (for "Million Dollar Baby"): 2 wds. |
| WES | Anderson who was nominated for the Best Director Oscar for "The Grand Budapest Hotel" |
| KEVINCOSTNER | He won the Best Director Oscar for the first film he directed, 1990's "Dances With Wolves" |
| BIGELOW | Kathryn _, first woman to win the Best Director Oscar (7) |
| PATRICK | Danica ____ is the only woman to win an IndyCar series race |
| IDA | Lupino who was the only woman to direct an episode of the 1959 The Twilight Zone series |
| SPIELBERG | Steven, U.S. film director who won his first Best Director Oscar for the 1993 film Schindler's List (9) |
| SYDNEYPOLLACK | US film director who won a Best Director Oscar for the 1985 film Out of Africa (6,7) |
| OLIVERSTONE | Winner of the Best Director Oscar for the 1986 film Platoon (6,5) |
| CHRISTOPHER | Filmmaker who won the Best Director Oscar for the 2023 film Oppenheimer (11,5) |
| NOLAN | Filmmaker who won the Best Director Oscar for the 2023 film Oppenheimer (11,5) |
