| MAO | "Becoming Madame ___": Anchee Min novel set in China |
| MIN | "Red Azalea" author Anchee |
| TEASERVICE | American in secretive novel set in China? (3,7) |
| GOODEARTH | Pearl S Buck's novel set in China, The ... (4,5) |
| PEARLS | Her novels set in China won the Nobel prize for literature in 1938, ... Buck (5,1) |
| MULAN | Disney cartoon set in China |
| TURANDOT | Puccini opera set in China |
| THELASTEMPEROR | '80s Best Picture winner set in China |
| INN | The ... of the Sixth Happiness (film set in China) |
| EMPEROR | Historical drama set in China, The Last - (7) |
| FISTS | Martial arts film set in China starring Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu, The Man with the Iron ___ (5) |
| EGLANTINE | Madame ___, titular narrator of 'The Prioress's Tale' in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, named in the General Prologue (9) |
| TUSSAUD | Original waxworks proprietor in London; Madame ___ (7) |
| DUBARRY | Madame ___ ___; mistress of Louis XV guillotined in the French Revolution (2,5) |
| BOVARY | Madame _ _ _ _ _ _ , novel by Gustave Flaubert (6) |
| ARCATI | Madame ____, clairvoyant in Noel Coward's play Blithe Spirit (6) |
| PERNELLE | Madame ___, Mother of Orgon in the play Tartuffe by Moliere (8) |
| NHU | 1960s U.S. policy critic, Madame ___ |
| MAXIME | Madame ___ ("Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" character) |
| TUSSAUDS | Madame ___, London waxworks museum (8) |