| ANNEHECHE | Late U.S. actress whose films included Volcano and Wag The Dog (4,5) |
| CARRIE | ___ Fisher, late U.S. actress who played Princess Leia in the Star Wars films (6) |
| MOVIES | "The Candidate" (1972) and "Wag the Dog" (1997) |
| MAMET | Writer of Hoffa and Wag The Dog, David ... |
| STROMBOLI | Name for the continuously erupting volcano (and island) in the Eolie (Lipari) Islands, in the Tyrrhenian Sea (of the Mediterranean), off northeastern Sicily. (9) |
| IRISAPFEL | Late U.S. design guru who became a fashion icon in her eighties (4,5) |
| BACALL | Lauren, U.S. actress whose films include The Big Sleep and Key Largo (6) |
| DEMI | ____ Moore, U.S. actress whose films include Indecent Proposal and Disclosure (4) |
| WINONA | ____ Ryder, U.S. actress whose films include Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands (6) |
| KERR | British actress whose films included The King and I and Black Narcissus (7,4) |
| DEBORAH | British actress whose films included The King and I and Black Narcissus (7,4) |
| GINALOLLOBRIGIDA | Italian actress whose films included Beat the Devil and Solomon and Sheba (4,12) |
| CAAN | James, the late U.S. actor who played Sonny Corleone in The Godfather films (4) |
| GISH | Lillian, actress whose films included 1915's The Birth of a Nation (4) |
| JACKSON | Glenda, late Labour politician and actress whose films included Women In Love (7) |
| NANETTE | ____ Newman, actress whose films included Deadfall and The Stepford Wives (7) |
| TERIGARR | Late actress whose films included Young Frankenstein and Tootsie (4,4) |
| SWAGGER | It's the way I walk and wag with Reg's help (7) |
| BOSEMAN | Chadwick, late U.S. actor who played the title character in the 2018 Marvel film Black Panther (7) |
| COOLIO | Professional name of Artis Ivey Jr., late U.S. rapper noted for the 1995 song Gangsta's Paradise (6) |
