| 100% | DALDRY | 6 | Stephen __; theater director of An Inspector Calls |
| 43% | SPYMASTER | 9 | Director of an intelligence agency |
| 39% | BOARD | 5 | Hirer of an executive director |
| 38% | SCREEN | 6 | Large feature of an IMAX theater |
| 38% | DIME | 4 | Cost of an old phone call |
| 38% | YOO | 3 | Start of an attention-getting call |
| 38% | HOOT | 4 | Call of an owl |
| 38% | DALDRY | 6 | Award-winning film and theater director Stephen |
| 38% | ATT | 3 | Part of an 800 collect call number |
| 37% | ITSGONE | 7 | Part of an announcer's home run call |
| 37% | TOW | 3 | Result of an emergency call, maybe |
| 36% | WELLES | 6 | Director of a pioneering 1936 "Macbeth" with an all-black cast |
| 36% | PRIESTLEY | 9 | J B —, author of stage plays An Inspector Calls and Dangerous Corner |
| 35% | SALONIKA | 8 | Theater of war in WWI, now called Thessaloniki |
| 35% | RIALTO | 6 | Name of many an historic theater |
| 35% | IGUANA | 6 | Creature Darwin called an "imp of darkness" |
| 34% | ITSAWRAP | 8 | Director's call at the end of filming (3 wds.) |
| 34% | PIT | 3 | Low part of a theater for an orchestra |
| 34% | FREARS | 6 | Stephen __; director of The Queen and Philomena |
| 34% | ARMPIT | 6 | Part of the body also called an axilla |
| 34% | GREENAWAY | 9 | Peter —, director of films The Belly of an Architect and Drowning by Numbers |
| 33% | ATRIUM | 6 | Upper chamber of the heart, once called an auricle |
| 33% | AGAPANTHUS | 10 | Plant of southern Africa also called an African lily |
| 33% | OSCAR | 5 | One is officially called an "Academy Award of Merit" |
| 33% | DEMME | 5 | Director Jonathan who won an Oscar for "The Silence of the Lambs" |
| 33% | LADO | 4 | Director Aldo whose first name is an anagram of his last name |
| 33% | NEO | 3 | Cinematic hero called "the one," and an anagram of "one" |
| 32% | ANDCUT | 6 | Director's call, plus a hint to making sense of eight Across answers |
| 32% | KAKAPO | 6 | Ground-living bird of New Zealand also called an owl parrot |
| 32% | VEST | 4 | Part of some suits, or what British people call an undershirt |