| PLANETEARTH | *God (in the first three days) |
| LABORDAYWEEKEND | First three-day break of the school year for many |
| STORM | Alter ego of Ororo Iqadi T'Challa, nee Munroe, in the X-Men series, played by Halle Berry in the first three films |
| FOURTH | Wasn't in the first three leading U-turn in garrison hospital (6) |
| UNPLACED | Wasn't appointed to an office. In fact, wasn't in the first three (8) |
| STATHAM | Jason, English actor who played Frank Martin in the first three parts of the Transporter film franchise (7) |
| PLACED | Set down when ran in the first three |
| DAMIAN | Actor Lewis, who starred in the first three seasons of |
| TAKEPLACE | Happen to finish in the first three (4,5) |
| EEL | Fish hidden in the first three letters of electricity |
| LOE | Richard - - - , New Zealand prop who played in the first three World Cups (3) |
| BUSTER | Andy Davis's pet dachshund in the first three Toy Story films (6) |
| FISHBURNE | Actor who plays Morpheus in the first three Matrix films (9) |
| GOMORRAH | One of the cities destroyed by God in the Old Testament because of the wickedness of its inhabitants |
| APIS | Egyptian god in the form of a bull; or, the genus of the honeybee (4) |
| LOKI | Villainous Norse god in the 2012 film "The Avengers" |
| EREBUS | Ending in ignorance, solver finds god in the dark (6) |
| ETERNE | Like God, in the olden days |
| ALLAH | The name of God in the Islamic faith (5) |
| EROS | Greek god in "The Name of the Rose" |
