| AKA | T'Challa, ___ Black Panther |
| WAKANDAN | Like T'Challa or M'Baku, in "Black Panther" |
| WAKANDA | T'Challa's kingdom, in "Black Panther" |
| CHADWICK | Late actor who played T'Challa aka Black Panther (8,7) |
| BOSEMAN | Late actor who played T'Challa aka Black Panther (8,7) |
| PANTHER | *T'Challa, a.k.a. Black ___ |
| SON | T'Challa, to T'Chaka |
| ERIK | Killmonger who battles T'Challa |
| BLACKPANTHER | Marvel hero AKA T'Challa: 2 wds. |
| STORM | Alter ego of Ororo Iqadi T'Challa, nee Munroe, in the X-Men series, played by Halle Berry in the first three films |
| SEALE | Bobby ___, Black Panther Party co-founder |
| WRIGHT | Letitia _, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever actress (6) |
| BASSETT | Angela ___, Black Panther actress (7) |
| MOVIE | "Black Panther" or "Black Swan" |
| ABDICATE | A black panther maybe breaks fall, making step down |
| EUSEBIO | Portuguese striker nicknamed the Black Panther who scored nine goals at the 1966 World Cup (7) |
| BAGHEERA | Black panther in the Rudyard Kipling novel The Jungle Book (8) |
| OBFUSCATE | Perplex old Black Panther, say, in what melting pot will do? |
| WENT | Black Flag "Everything ___ Black" |
| JAPAN | ___ black: finish on early autos, as Ford Model T |