| ADOREE | Renee of the 1926 silent film "The Blackbird" |
| TOD | Browning who directed the 1926 silent film "The Blackbird" |
| DEVIL | Flesh and the ___ 1926 silent film directed by Clarence Brown that stars Greta Garbo |
| GISH | Star of the 1926 version of "The Scarlet Letter" |
| RAPP | Renee of the "Mean Girls" musical |
| ROXIE | ___ Hart, main character of the 1926 play Chicago, later made into a musical film (5) |
| KODALY | Zoltan ___, composer of the 1926 opera Hary Janos (6) |
| IBERT | Jacques ___, French composer of the 1926 opera Angelique (5) |
| LON | Star of the 1925 silent film The Phantom of the Opera, --- Chaney (3) |
| ROXIEHART | Main character of the 1926 play Chicago by US playwright Maurine Dallas Watkins (5,4) |
| GRIFFITH | DW _, director of the 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation (8) |
| LONCHANEY | Star of 1924 silent film The Hunchback of Notre Dame (3,6) |
| HEDERA | - helix ; worn as a crown by god of the grape-harvest Dionysus and supporting some 50 species including the blackbird, the Latin name of the native British woodland plant ivy (6) |
| FLUTE | One of the woodwind instruments played in Claude Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun or Olivier Messiaen's The Blackbird, for example (5) |
| MARENOSTRUM | 1926 silent war film directed by Rex Ingram (4,7) |
| NEILL | Actor in The Piano, Jurassic Park and The Blackbird as well as the historical drama series The Tudors (5) |
| OUZEL | European bird of the thrush family similar to the blackbird (4,5) |
| RING | European bird of the thrush family similar to the blackbird (4,5) |
| MIME | Performed by Charlie Chaplin in silent films, the art of acting with gestures and actions but no words (4) |
| SUNUP | 1926 silent drama directed by Edmund Goulding (3-2) |
