| PATRICIA | _ Arquette, nominated for a SAG award for The Act (8) |
| DAVIS | She won a SAG award for her role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (5,5) |
| VIOLA | She won a SAG award for her role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (5,5) |
| PIN | Accessory for a SAG-AFTRA strike supporter |
| CREATION | A word for the act of causing, coining, composing, conceiving or constructing; a concoction; the cosmos; or, a conspicuous costume (8) |
| STITCHUP | What is a slang term for the act of incriminating a person for a crime? (6-2) |
| SHOOTING | Word for the act of blasting a bore; the sport of hunting game; an estate on which to blast, fire or hunt; or, a sudden twinge of sharp pain (8) |
| FENESTRA | Latin for "window", hence found in a word for the act of throwing a person out of said light or opening (8) |
| IGNITION | Word for the act or process of lighting a fire or for activating combustion in an IC engine (8) |
| EXPOSURE | Word for the act of laying open or bare; or, a shelterless state (8) |
| APPROVAL | Word for the act of sanctioning or agreeing; commendation; or, favourable judgement (8) |
| GYMNASIA | Maybe a sag in my tummy will be fixed by them (8) |
| ALLISION | An unusual word for the act of dashing or striking against, whose near-homophonic etymological or semantic relative means apparition, deception, maya or mirage (8) |
| TSUNDOKU | Japanese term for the act of buying books and never reading them |
| DIP | Related to "dive", a word for a plunge; a bath; a quick swim; a hollow; a candle; a sag; a pickpocket; or, sauce in which to dunk crisps/crudites (3) |
| CHASTAIN | Current holder of the Best Actress Academy Award for The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, Jessica _ (8) |
| TERRANCE | Poet Hayes who won a National Book Award for the collection "Lighthead" |
| TROPHIES | Awards for the rough sport he and I go in for (8) |
| PARASITE | South Korean dark comedy thriller which won an award for the Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards |
| TESSELLATION | Word, from the Greek for "four", thus the Latin for "cube, die, square", for the act or art of perfectly interlocking, mosaicking or tiling shapes, leaving neither spaces nor gaps (12) |
