| EALING | English film studio famous for comedies |
| SHANEMEADOWS | English film director and screenwriter whose This is England won a BAFTA for Best British Film |
| ELEANOR | English film director or English queen |
| EPICURE | English film lacking core element for the connoisseur |
| LOACH | English film director who won his second Palme d'Or at Cannes for I, Daniel Blake (5) |
| CAROLREED | English film director who made the 1968 film musical Oliver! (5,4) |
| HODGES | Mike, English film director who made the 1971 gangster film Get Carter (6) |
| PARASITE | First non-English film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture (8) |
| MORE | Kenneth _; English film and stage actor (4) |
| EPIC | Impressively long English film (4) |
| ANDERSON | Lindsay ____, English film director, d. 1994 (8) |
| KATE | -- Winslet, English film actress (4) |
| IRONS | English film star gets rid of wrinkles (5) |
| BEWILDERED | Confused English film director found in bed (10) |
| MASON | Craftsman - English film actor, d. 1984 (5) |
| MEADOWS | Shane _; English film director (7) |
| GIJOE | Old dance resurrected English film series (1,1,3) |
| REED | Sir Carol, English film director of TheThird Man (4) |
| GEORGEELIOT | Writer circulated material, say, to English film director (6,5) |
| ECLIPSE | Obscure English film excerpts shown at opening of Empire |