| BUDDY | _ Holly, 1950-3 musician (5) |
| SEA | Eryngium maritimum, '___ Holly' (3) |
| LAUREN | "Dumb and Dumber" actress ___ Holly |
| SUE | "Peggy ___" (Holly hit) |
| EVERYONEEWEMEAT | "Say hello to friends you know and ___": ". . . Holly Jolly Christmas" |
| ONTHE | 1950 film starring Charles Laughton as Inspector Maigret (3,3,2,3,6,5) |
| STASI | Secret police force of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany), founded in 1950 to replace Kommissariat 5 (K-5) (5) |
| ANNIE | 1950 musical film, loosely based on an American frontierswoman who appeared in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show (5,3,4,3) |
| KLAUS | and 1ac, Physicist convicted in 1950 of passing information to the Soviet Union about the development of the atomic bomb in the US (5,5) |
| TERRY | London-born World Flyweight boxing champion from Apr-Aug 1950 (5,5) |
| COOCH | Former state of north east India that has been part of West Bengal since 1950 (5.5) |
| BEHAR | Former state of north east India that has been part of West Bengal since 1950 (5.5) |
| ALLEN | London-born World Flyweight boxing champion from Apr-Aug 1950 (5,5) |
| HORSE | and 23ac, 1950 war film drama starring Leo Genn based on a book by Eric Williams (3,6,5) |
| FUCHS | see 25ac, Physicist convicted in 1950 of passing information to the Soviet Union about the development of the atomic bomb in the US (5,5) |
| SMUTS | Specks of soot - South African statesman, d. 1950 (5) |
| LOCKE | Bobby, 1950 British Open golf champion (5) |
| LASKI | Harold -, 1893-1950, English political scientist (5) |
| EAGLE | British comic for boys launched on April 14, 1950 (5) |
| BEECH | Walter --, American aviator and aviation entrepreneur (1891-1950) (5) |
