| ROLLESTON | NZ actor featured in Boy and The Breaker Upperers, James - (9) |
| DAHL | Author who recalls Mrs Pratchett's Sweet Shop, Llandaff in Boy and drew inspiration from said childhood haunt when writing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and other tales (4) |
| VANHEFLIN | Actor featured in "3:10 to Yuma" |
| PATTINSON | Star of The Batman, adding his voice to animation The Boy And The Heron (6,9) |
| ROSENTHAL | Jack ____ wrote TV scripts for The Lovers, Bar Mitzvah Boy, and The Knowledge |
| SAMI | The Breaker Upperers co-director and star, Madeleine ... (4) |
| DESTROYER | Naval vessel for the breaker (9) |
| SMIDGEONS | Biter lurking in boy's bits (9) |
| LOADSTONE | There's nothing in boy's mood that's attractive (9) |
| LASTWORDS | Dying remarks bring out the worst in boys (4,5) |
| IMPROBITY | I'm with sympathy taking in boy's corruption |
| TEENIDOLS | Boys in boy bands, often |
| RICHARDKIND | Spin City actor featured in season 4 of Only Murders in the Building: 2 wds. |
| KUMAILNINJIANI | Silicon Valley actor featured in season 4 of Only Murders in the Building: 2 wds. |
| PETERSALLIS | Only actor featured in all 295 episodes of the BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine (1973-2010) |
| OMARI | US actor featured in Kickass and Power,- Hardwick (5) |
| CHALDAIC | M*A*S*H actor featured in fashionable Ur (as it was) |
| GAINSBOROUGH | Artist noted for landscapes, portraits including The Blue Boy and The Pink Boy and, in his final decade, "fancy pictures" including his Cottage Door paintings (12) |
| IDIOT | The ____ Boy and The Mad Mother were two of Wordsworth's poems in the Lyrical Ballads collection |
| ROBERT | Star of The Batman, adding his voice to animation The Boy And The Heron (6,9) |