| HEDDA | In the forties, this hopper held secrets. (5) |
| FROG | New species found of this hopper (4) |
| LARUE | Lash lashing his way through Westerns in the forties and fifties |
| OVERT | By about the middle of the forties, it was obvious (5) |
| RAJAH | Dharampur's leader, until the forties |
| SHORE | Singer Dinah of the forties |
| LINDA | American leading lady of the forties, ... Darnell |
| GOOGIEWITHERS | Actress, best-known in the Forties and early Fifties, who played governor Faye Boswell in Within These Walls |
| OLIVIA | She sued Warners in the forties and won, moving to Paramount to make two Oscar-winning movies, To Each His Own and The Heiress; ... de Havilland |
| AIRRAID | Blackout reason, in the forties |
| MIDDLEAGESPREAD | Result of inflation in the forties? (6-3,6) |
| SIAM | Thailand in the forties |
| ZOOT | ___ suit (Harlem fashion innovation popular with Mexican Americans in the forties) |
| DONALDDUCK | Classic cartoon character who became more popular than Mickey Mouse in the forties (6,4) |
| ELVIS | Died in his forties, but in some ways he was 56 (5) |
| OLDIE | Fighter losing wings in forties film, say |
| MAMET | Broadway musical by mid-Forties playwright (5) |
| RAISE | A Forties hero out to create a boisterous disturbance (5,3,4) |
| FALA | "Top dog" of the forties |
| MINICAR | Bond three-wheeler from the Forties, Fifties and Sixties (7) |
