| WOODYALLEN | Actor and director in club longing to embrace everyone (5,5) |
| WOODY | Everyone in club longing to see movie great (5,5) |
| LUTIST | Passionate longing to embrace rising Italian musician (6) |
| DALLIED | Hung about and longed to embrace everyone |
| AMORALLY | Mayor prepared to embrace everyone with a lack of conscience (8) |
| SPENDS | Uses up the budget for writer and director in Titanic, for example (6) |
| SHAPED | Model and director in cast (6) |
| MELODIC | Frenchman with musical group and director in charge describing good song? (7) |
| STANLAUREL | Comic actor and director born in Ulverston in 1890 |
| NOELCOWARD | Writer, actor and director who played Captain Kinross in the 1942 film In Which We Serve (4,6) |
| ANDYGARCIA | Cuban-American actor and director who played Vincent Mancini in The Godfather Part III |
| NOELCLARKE | Actor and director who played Mickey Smith in BBC TV series Doctor Who |
| RAYMILLAND | Welsh actor and director best remembered for his Oscar?winning performance in The Lost Weekend |
| BENAFFLECK | Actor and director who won an Oscar for his screenplay for Good Will Hunting |
| USHAKHANNA | Who made her debut as musical director in the Indian film industry with Dil Deke Dekho (1959) and received and received a Filmfare Award nomination for composing the songs for the hit film Souten (198 |
| IRRITATING | Irish and French director in circle proving troublesome (10) |
| MOTHERSDAY | They may be significant to director in month synonymous with family celebration (7,3) |
| FIXEDCOSTS | Dilemma: director in Tesco's fiddled overheads (5,5) |
| COUNTYHALL | Judge with unknown theatre director in administrative centre (6,4) |
| LIKEMINDED | Prefer director in fancy denim having similar views? (4,6) |
