Answer: direct

AnswerCrossword Clue
DIRECTEmulate Delbert Mann
DIRECTCall the shots?
DIRECTStraight from the source
DIRECTPlain-spoken
DIRECTFace-to-face
DIRECTDictate letters of credit (6)
DIRECTNot roundabout
DIRECTEmulate Mike Nichols
DIRECTEmulate Scorsese
DIRECTShow the way
DIRECTLike the fastest route
DIRECTEmulate Woody Allen
DIRECTEmulate Lumet
DIRECTWhat Forman and Huston do
DIRECTEmulate Otto Preminger
DIRECTLike some currents
DIRECTKind of current or evidence
DIRECTKind of current
DIRECTConduct
DIRECTWithout stopping en route
directto address
directwithout intermediary agents or conditions
directto manage or guide
directto serve as director of
directstraightforward / to control or conduct the affairs of
directstraightforward
directto command
directto show (a person) the way or how to do something
directproceeding in a straight line
DIRECTManage
DIRECTProceeding by the shortest way
DIRECTNot meandering
DIRECTWhat helmers do
DIRECTStraight forward
DIRECTType of object, in grammar
DIRECTPoint the way
DIRECTLead the band
DIRECTEmulate Kazan
DIRECTLead
DIRECTRun