| LEM | Solaris [1961] (3) |
| STANISLAWLEM | Poland-born author of Solaris (9,3) |
| ANDREI | "Solaris" director Tarkovsky |
| UNIX | Basis of the Solaris Operating System |
| NATASCHA | Solaris actress McElhone |
| TARKOVSKY | Andrei —, Soviet film director (Solaris) |
| CAMEL | Solaris author's account about WWI aircraft |
| ACCENT | Hyundai model known in some countries as Verna and Solaris |
| VIOLA | Actress Davis (Solaris costar of 33 Across) |
| SEA | 1961 adventure film starring Walter Pidgeon and Joan Fontaine (6,2,3,6,2,3,3) |
| CID | 1961 Charlton Heston film, El --- (3) |
| NEO | Artificial language created 1961 (3) |
| IAN | Painter of Monastery, 1961, first name (3) |
| UAR | Egypt, 1961-71: Abbr. (3) |
| COX | Archibald ?, US Solicitor General from 1961-65 (3) |
| DAG | 1953-61 Secretary-General of the United Nations awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1961 (3,12) |
| ELI | Actor in the 1961 Western The Magnificent Seven, --- Wallach (3) |
| PIT | 'The -- and the Pendulum', 1961 horror movie (3) |
| LEE | Harper -; author awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1961 for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (3) |
| VEE | Bobby --, US singer with hits in 1961-63 (3) |
