| MITTY | "The Secret Life of Walter -" |
| BENSTILLER | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Tropic Thunder, Night at the Museum, Meet the Parents and Along Came Polly are films in which this US actor starred (3,7) |
| PENN | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and The Gunman actor, Sean ___ (4) |
| CATBIRD | The - Seat; story by The Secret Life of Walter Mitty author James Thurber (7) |
| THURBER | see 14ac, US humorist whose short stories include The Catbird Seat and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| JAMES | US humorist whose short stories include The Catbird Seat and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (5,7) |
| STILLER | Director and star of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Ben - (7) |
| ILL | "And the oboe it is clearly understood; Is an ... wind that no one blows good," according to Danny Kaye in The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty |
| DANNYKAYE | "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" star |
| ANNRUTHERFORD | Vancouver born actress who played Gertrude Griswald in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" |
| JAMESTHURBER | American author and cartoonist best known for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| SECRET | Ben Stiller's The ___ Life of Walter Mitty |
| THESECRET | Movie, ___ Life of Walter Mitty |
| FULLER | Scholar whose Worthies of England includes the story of Walter Raleigh's alleged laying of a cloak before the feet of Elizabeth I (6) |
| LIFE | "The Secret ___ of Walter Mitty" (2013 movie) |
| THESURGEONSDAUGHTER | Part of Walter Scott's Chronicles of the Canongate (3,8,8) |
| RIOTED | What people did after the death of Walter Winchell in The Plot Against America (6) |
| PATER | Father, who wrote under the name of Walter (5) |
| HONECKER | East German Communist leader, the successor of Walter Ulbricht (8) |
| GOATEE | Facial feature of Walter White in "Breaking Bad" |
