| WESTSIDESTORY | Bernstein's tragic musical of cross-cultural love and conflict between the Jets and the Sharks set i |
| SIDESTORY | Musical about the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, West ___ |
| GANGS | The Jets and the Sharks of "West Side Story," e.g. |
| WESTSIDE | Place for the Jets and the Sharks |
| PUCK | The Jets and the Sharks may fight over one |
| ICE | Surface for the Jets and the Sharks |
| SKATE | Emulate the Jets and the Sharks |
| RINKS | Locales for the Jets and the Sharks |
| NHL | Org. for the Jets and the Sharks |
| SYRACUSE | It was the chief city of Sicily for the ancient Greeks. It was settled about 734 BCE by Corinthians, and its history is a long story of invasions and conflict, including the Allied invasion of 1943. I |
| PAINTING | Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did ___ need, / And therefore to your fair no painting set: / I found , or thought I found, you did exceed / The barren tender of a poet's debt |
| VISITOR | Thomas McCarthy explores themes of immigration and cross-cultural communication in his 2008 film, The ... |
| THWART | Stop most of the fighting and conflict ultimately (6) |
| REXRYAN | Former coach of the Jets and Bills |
| RINK | Where the Jets and Sharks may meet |
| PATS | Rivals of the Jets and Fins |
| METLIFE | Home of the Jets and Giants |
| FRICTION | Novels etc about end of war and conflict (8) |
| WARMUP | Prepare for exercise and conflict with male in the lead (4,2) |
| NATTIER | Like the smarter set, I featured in gossip |
