| SELENA | "The Dead Don't Die" actress Gomez |
| IGGYPOP | Rock star who's a zombie in The Dead Don't Die (4,3) |
| LEA | "Spectre" and "No Time To Die" actress Seydoux |
| ANA | "No Time to Die" actress ___ de Armas |
| RHEA | Bad Boys: Ride or Die actress Seehorn |
| TERI | Tomorrow Never Dies actress, ... Hatcher |
| YEOH | Michelle ___, Tomorrow Never Dies actress (4) |
| YEVTUSHENKO | Yevgeny ___, Russian poet and author whose works include 1993 novel Don't Die Before You're Dead (11 |
| JAMIEBELL | BAFTA-winning star of the film Billy Elliot (2000) also nominated for Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017) (5,4) |
| RECOVER | Don't die ___ take out another policy! (7) |
| FADEOUT | Actors don't die they just ___ ___ ? (4,3) |
| OBEAH | Please don't die - oh no, witchcraft! |
| OLIVINE | Don't die, drinking popular mineral |
| EVIL | A bad back you don't die from! (4) |
| OLIVERTWIST | Please don't die, right? Plot surprise for young hero |
| FILM | Our star's movie: - Stars Don't Die in Liverpool |
| CLAN | Don't die in Iceland? Some tribe! (4) |
| NAOMIE | With 20-Across, "No Time to Die" actress who plays Poppy Turner in "Swan Song" |
| MICHELLE | ___ Gomez, actress who plays Missy, returning in the new DW series (8) |
| JULIA | Raul, actor who played Gomez in the 1991 film The Addams Family (5) |