| SYMS | "The Queen" actor Sylvia |
| BOGART | Humphrey, The African Queen actor (6) |
| OSWALT | 'The King of Queens' actor Patton |
| PATTONOSWALT | "The King of Queens" actor who narrates 18-Across as the present-day adult Adam: 2 wds. |
| PATTON | With 31-Across, "The King of Queens" actor who plays Principal Durbin on "A.P. Bio" |
| CLAUDE | Given name of the artist whose paintings include Seaport at Sunset, The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba and Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia (6) |
| PLATH | Sylvia -; author who wrote The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel and the novel The Bell Jar (5) |
| ARIEL | Collection of poems by Sylvia Plath; a sprite in The Tempest; or, a character in The Little Mermaid (5) |
| CRAIG | Actor who starred as Ted Hughes in Sylvia, Lord Asriel in The Golden Compass and James Bond in films including Skyfall and Spectre (5) |
| HUGHES | Ted -; poet who dedicated his first collection The Hawk in the Rain to his first wife, Sylvia Plath (6) |
| VIRGILTRACY | The pilot of Thunderbird 2 in the Thunderbirds TV show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson |
| LEODELIBES | French composer of the ballets Coppelia and Sylvia, and the opera Lakme |
| ALBEE | Edward who wrote the play "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia" |
| ILKA | She was Sylvia in Broadway's "The Women" |
| BELLJAR | Sylvia Plath novel, with "The" |
| DELIBES | French composer of the 1876 ballet Sylvia (7) |
| BELL | Sylvia Plath novel; The _ Jar (4) |
| SUFFRAGETTE | The ___, 1911 work by E Sylvia Pankhurst (11) |
| OTTO | ___ Plath, father of the more famous Sylvia (4) |
| EARLE | "The World Is Blue" author Sylvia |
