| Director Clair and others | 25 |
| Director Clair | 14 |
| Director Christopher and actor Lloyd | 36 |
| Director Christopher | 20 |
| Director Campion | 16 |
| Director Cameron ___ | 20 |
| Director Cameron | 16 |
| Director Burton or Robbins | 26 |
| Director Burton and football player Tebow | 41 |
| Director Burton and actor Allen | 31 |
| Director Burton | 15 |
| Director Buñuel's billow | 31 |
| Director Buñuel | 18 |
| Director Browning | 17 |
| Director Brooks | 15 |
| Director Brian De ___ | 21 |
| Director Brian De __ | 20 |
| Director Brian | 14 |
| Director Boll of 2005's "Alone in the Dark" | 57 |
| Director Bob who won a Tony, Oscar and Emmy all in the same year | 64 |
| Director Besson | 15 |
| Director Berkeley | 17 |
| Director Bergman | 16 |
| Director Atom | 13 |
| Director Arthur getting back on his feet? | 41 |
| Director Arcand | 15 |
| Director Apatow | 15 |
| Director Angelopoulos who won the 1988 Palme d'Or | 53 |
| Director Ang or Spike | 21 |
| Director Ang | 12 |
| Director Anderson or Craven | 27 |
| Director Anderson | 17 |
| Director and star of the first unabridged film version of “Hamlet” | 74 |
| Director and star of the 1958 Best Foreign Language Film | 56 |
| Director and star of "Looking for Richard" | 52 |
| Director and star of "Armour of God" | 46 |
| Director and playwright | 23 |
| Director and cinematographer Nicolas | 36 |
| Director Almodóvar | 21 |
| Director Allegret | 17 |
| Director Affleck | 16 |
| Director Adrian et al. | 22 |
| Director -- B. DeMille | 22 |
| Director (Vietnam War infantryman) | 34 |
| Director (2003), actor (1962) | 29 |
| Director | 8 |
| Directly, in directions | 23 |
| Directly, directionally | 23 |
| Directly, briefly | 17 |
| Directly toward sunup | 21 |
| Directly show where | 19 |
| Directly proportional, in mathematics | 37 |
| Directly over | 13 |
| Directly opposed | 16 |
| Directly in front | 17 |
| Directly from the side | 22 |
| Directly from NNW | 17 |
| Directly confront | 17 |
| Directly competitive | 20 |
| Directly ahead | 14 |
| Directly adversarial | 20 |
| Directly across from: Abbr. | 27 |
| Directly across from | 20 |
| Directly abreast a ship's middle | 36 |
| Directly abreast (of a ship) | 28 |
| Directly above | 14 |
| Directly | 8 |
| Directives, in brief | 20 |
| Directives to slow down? | 24 |
| Directives from headquarters | 28 |
| Directives | 10 |
| Directive to typesetter | 23 |
| Directive to James | 18 |
| Directive to Dobbin | 19 |
| Directive to a tot | 18 |
| Directive to a think tank | 25 |
| Directive to a printer | 22 |
| Directive to a masseur at a Jewish spa? | 39 |
| Directive to a Doberman | 23 |
| Directive to a chauffeur | 24 |
| Directive to a broker | 21 |
| Directive to a band | 19 |
| Directive repeated in an aerobics class | 39 |
| Directive re a check | 20 |
| Directive on an env. | 20 |
| Directive obeyed by Alice | 25 |
| Directive in the chapter "Down the Rabbit-Hole" | 57 |
| Directive from one wishing to hire columnist Walter? | 52 |
| Directive from Emeril, perhaps | 30 |
| Directive from dad | 18 |
| Directive for printers | 22 |
| Directive for owners of not-quite-domesticated polecats? | 56 |
| Directive for murder? | 21 |
| Directive at work | 17 |
| Directive at bridge | 19 |
| Directive as the judge enters | 29 |
| Directive | 9 |
| Directions: Abbr. | 17 |
| Directions-seeker's question | 32 |
| Directions-inquiry word | 23 |