| CILLIANMURPHY | Irishman who won Best Actor Oscar last month; he bears his country's most common surname |
| YEATS | Irishman who won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| THEFATHER | For which film did Anthony Hopkins win a Best Actor Oscar last month? (3,6) |
| ADULT | A day last month he had his 18th birthday (5) |
| BELABARTOK | Hungarian composer, 1881-1945, regarded as his country's most important composer since Liszt (4,6) |
| OSPINA | David, Colombian goalkeeper and his country's most capped player (6) |
| STUTTERER | Which Irish short film won an Oscar last month? (9) |
| JOKER | Joaquin Phoenix won his Best Actor Oscar last year for his role as the title character in what film? (5) |
| WHALE | Movie for which Brendan Fraser won the Best Actor Oscar last night (with "The") |
| NICHOLSON | Jack ---, actor who won Best Actor Oscar for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (9) |
| CASEY | Who won Best Actor at last month's Oscars? (5,7) |
| AFFLECK | Who won Best Actor at last month's Oscars? (5,7) |
| BOYSTOWN | The 1938 film for which Spencer Tracy won Best Actor Oscar (4,4) |
| TRUE | Film for which John Wayne won Best Actor Oscar (4,4) |
| GRIT | Film for which John Wayne won Best Actor Oscar (4,4) |
| COLOROFMONEY | 'The --', film for which Paul Newman won Best Actor Oscar in 1986 (5,2,5) |
| CHAMP | 'The ---', 1931 King Vidor film for which Wallace Beery won Best Actor Oscar (5) |
| HURT | William who won Best Actor for "Kiss of the Spider Woman" |
| GARY | ___ Oldman won best actor Oscar (4) |
| JEAN | Dujardin who won Best Actor for "The Artist" |
